Faculty & Staff

Faculty & Staff

Kang Kim, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute




Faculty Member

Peer Reviewed Articles

1. Xie H, Kim K, Aglyamov SR, Emelianov SY, O'Donnell M, Weitzel WF, Wrobleski SK, Myers DD, Wakefield TW, Rubin JM.  Correspondence of ultrasound elasticity imaging to direct mechanical measurement in aging DVT in rats.  Ultrasound Med Biol  2005;31(10):1351-9.

2. Weitzel WF, Kim K, Rubin JM, Xie H, O'Donnell M.  Renal advances in ultrasound elasticity imaging: measuring the compliance of arteries and kidneys in end-stage renal disease.  Blood Purification  2005;23(1):10-7.

3. Chen X, Xie H, Erkamp R, Kim K, Jia C, Rubin JM, O'Donnell M.  3-D correlation-based speckle tracking.  Ultrasonic Imaging  2005;27(1):21-36.

4. Rubin JM, Xie H, Kim K, Weitzel WF, Emelianov SY, Aglyamov SR, Wakefield TW, Urquhart AG, O'Donnell M.  Sonographic elasticity imaging of acute and chronic deep venous thrombosis in humans.  J Ultrasound Med  2006;25(9):1179-86.

5. Kim K, Lauchle GC, Gabrielson TB.  Near-field Acoustic Intensity Measurements using an Accelerometer-based Underwater Intensity Vector Sensor.  J Sound Vibration  2007;309, 293-306.

6. Huang SW, Kim K, Witte RS, Olafsson R, O'Donnell M.  Inducing and imaging thermal strain using a single ultrasound linear array. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2007;54(9):1718-20.

7. Kim K, Agarwal A, Huang SW, Denny MF, Kaplan MJ, Ashkenazi S,O’Donnell M, Kotov NA.  Photoacoustic Imaging of Early Inflammatory Response using Gold Nanorods.  Applied Physics Letters  2007; 90:223901-(1-3).

8. R Aglyamov S, R Skovoroda A, Xie H, Kim K, M Rubin J, O'Donnell M, W Wakefield T, Myers D, Y Emelianov S.  Model-based reconstructive elasticity imaging using ultrasound. Intl J Biomed Imaging  2007;2007:35830.

9. Kim K, Huang SW, Hall TL, Witte RS, Chenevert TL, O'Donnell M.  Arterial vulnerable plaque characterization using ultrasound-induced thermal strain imaging (TSI). IEEE Trans Biomed Eng  2008;55(1):171-80.

10. Kim K, Johnson LA, Jia C, Joyce JC, Rangwalla S, Higgins PD, Rubin JM.  Noninvasive ultrasound elasticity imaging (UEI) of Crohn's disease: animal model.  Ultrasound Med Biol  2008;34(6):902-12.  Epub 2008 Feb 21.

11. Kim K, Jeong CG, Hollister SJ.  Non-invasive monitoring of tissue scaffold degradation using ultrasound elasticity imaging.  Acta Biomaterialia  2008;4(4):783-90.  Epub 2008 Feb 23.

12. Stephens DN, Cannata J, Liu R, Zhao JZ, Shung KK, Nguyen H, Chia R, Dentinger A, Wildes D, Thomenius KE, Mahajan A, Shivkumar K, Kim K, O'Donnell M, Nikoozadeh A, Oralkan O, Khuri-Yakub PT, Sahn DJ.  Multifunctional catheters combining intracardiac ultrasound imaging and electrophysiology sensing.  IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control  2008;55(7):1570-81.

13. Olafsson R, Witte RS, Jia C, Huang SW, Kim K, O'Donnell M.  Cardiac activation mapping using ultrasound current source density imaging (UCSDI). IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control  2009;56(3):565-74.

14. Jia C, Olafsson R, Kim K, Kolias TJ, Rubin JM, Weitzel WF, Witte RS, Huang SW, Richards MS, Deng CX, O'Donnell M.  Two-dimensional strain imaging of controlled rabbit hearts. Ultrasound Med Biol  2009;35(9):1488-501.  Epub 2009 Jul 17.

15. Weitzel WF, Kim K, Henke PK, Rubin JM.  High-resolution ultrasound speckle tracking may detect vascular mechanical wall changes in peripheral artery bypass vein grafts.  Ann Vascular Surgery  2009;23(2):201-6.  Epub 2008 Oct 29.

16. Weitzel WF, Kim K, Park DW, Hamilton J, O'Donnell M, Cichonski TJ, Rubin JM.  High-resolution ultrasound elasticity imaging to evaluate dialysis fistula stenosis.  Seminars in Dialysis  2009;22(1):84-89.  Epub 2008 Sep 24.

17. Jia C, Olafsson R, Kim K, Kolias TJ, Rubin JM, Weitzel WF, Witte RS, Huang SW, Richards MS, Deng CX, O'Donnell M.  Two-dimensional strain imaging of controlled rabbit hearts.  Ultrasound Med Biol  2009;35(9):1488-501.

18. Jia C, Olafsson R, Huang SW, Kolias TJ, Kim K, Rubin JM, Xie H, O'Donnell M.  Comparison of 2-D speckle tracking and tissue Doppler imaging in an isolated rabbit heart model. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2010;57(11):2491-502.

19. Seo CH, Shi Y, Huang S-W, Kim K, O'Donnell M.  Thermal strain imaging: a review. Interface Focus 2011;1:649-664

20. Stidham RW, Xu J, Johnson LA, Kim K, Moons DS, McKenna BJ, Rubin JM, Higgins PDR.  Ultrasound elasticity imaging for detecting intestinal fibrosis and inflammation in rats and humans with Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology 2011;141(3):819-82., PMID: 21784048.

21. Ha S, Carson A, Agarwal A, Kotov NA, Kim K. Detection and monitoring of the multiple inflammatory responses by photoacoustic molecular imaging using selectively targeted gold nanorods. Biomed Opt Express 2011;2(3):645-57. PMID: 21412469.

22. Wang Z, Ha S, Kim K. A new design of light illumination scheme for deep tissue photoacoustic Imaging. Opt Express 2012;20(20):22649-22659. PMID: 23037414.

23. Kotchey GP, Hasan SA, Kapralov AA, Ha S, Kim K, Shvedova AA, Kagan VE, Star A. A natural vanishing act: The enzyme-catalyzed degradation of carbon nanomaterials. Acc Chem Res  2012;45(10):1770-81, PMID:22824066.

24. Ha S, Carson A, Kim K. Ferritin as a novel reporter gene for photoacoustic molecular imaging. Cytometry Part A 2012;81(10):910-5, PMID: 22949299.

25. Leeman JE, Kim JS, Yu F, Chen X, Kim K, Villanueva FS and Pacella JJ. Effect of acoustic conditions on microbubble-mediated microvascular sonothrombolysis. Ultrasound Med Biol  2012 Sep;38:1589-1598.

26. Kim JS, Leeman JE, Kagemann L, Yu F, Chen X, Pacella JJ, Schuman JS, Villanueva FS, Kim K. Volumetric quantification of in vitro sonothrombolysis with microbubbles using high resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT). J Biomed Optics 2012;17(7):070502 (1-3).

27.  Xu J, Tripathy S, Rubin JM, Stidham RW, Johnson LA, Higgins PDR, Kim K.  A new nonlinear parameter in the developed strain-to-applied strain of the soft tissues and its application in ultrasound elasticity imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol 2012;38(3):511-523.

28. Hollman KW, Shtein RM, Tripathy S, Kim K.  Using an ultrasound elasticity microscope to map three-dimensional strain in a porcine cornea. Ultrasound Med Biol 2013;39:1451-1459.

29. Yu J, Takanari K, Hong Y, Lee K-W, Amoroso NJ, Wang Y, Wagner WR, Kim K. Non-invasive characterization of polyurethane-based tissue constructs in a rat abdominal repair model using high frequency ultrasound elasticity imaging. Biomaterials 2013;34(11):2701-2709.

30. Mahmoud A,  Dutta D, Lavery L, Stephens D, Villanueva FS, Kim K.  Noninvasive detection of lipids in atherosclerotic plaque using ultrasound thermal strain imaging: in vivo animal study.  J Am Coll Cardio  2013;62(19):1804-1809.

31. Dutta D, Lee K, Allen R, Wang Y, Brigham JC, Kim K.  Non-invasive Monitoring of Mechanical Strength of Arterial Constructs During Cell Culture Using Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging.  Ultrasound Med Biol 2013;39:2103-2115.

32. Dutta D, Mahmoud A, Leers S, Kim K.  Motion Artifact Reduction in Ultrasound Based Thermal Strain Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaques using Time Series Analysis.  IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2013;60(8):1660-1668.

33.  Stephens DN, Mahmoud A, Ding X, Lucero S, Dutta D, Yu FTH, Chen X, Kim K.  Flexible Integration of Both High Imaging Resolution and High Power Arrays for Ultrasound-Induced Thermal Strain Imaging (US-TSI). IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2013; 60(12):2456-2656

34.  Allen RA, Wu W, Yao M, Dutta D, Duan X, Bachman TN, Champion HC, Donna B, Stolz DB, Robertson AM, Kim K, Isenberg JS and Wang Y.  Nerve regeneration and elastin formation within poly(glycerol sebacate)-based synthetic arterial grafts one-year post-implantation in a rat model.  Biomaterials 2014;35(1):165-173.

35.  Mahmoud A, Ding X, Dutta D, Singh VP, Kim K.  Detecting hepatic steatosis using ultrasound-induced thermal strain imaging: an ex vivo animal study. Physics Med Biology  2014;59:881-895.

36.  Kagan V.E, Kapralov A, St Croix CM, Watkins S, Kisin E, Kotchey G, Balasubramanian K, Yu J, Kim K, Seo W, Mallampalli R, Star A, Shvedova A. Lung Macrophages "Digest" Carbon Nanotubes Using a Superoxide/Peroxynitrite Oxidative Pathway. ACS Nano  2014:8(6):5610-5621.

37.  Park D, Ye S, Jiang H, Dutta D, Nonakad K, Wagner W, Kim K.  In vivo monitoring of structural and mechanical changes of tissue scaffolds by multi-modality imaging. Biomaterials  2014;35(27):7851-7859.

38. Ding X, Dutta D, Mahmoud A, Tillman B, Leers S,  Kim K. An adaptive displacement estimation algorithm for improved reconstruction of thermal strain. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2015;62(1):138-51.

39. Yu J, Chen X, Villanueva FS, Kim K. Vaporization and recondensation dynamics of indocyanine green-loaded perfluoropentane droplets irradiated by a short pulse laser. Appl Phys Lett 2016; 109(24):243701. Epub 2016 Dec 16. doi: 10.1063/1.4972184.