Kelly Nguyen

About

Kelly Nguyen is a scholar whose work engages deeply with themes of queerness, femininity, and diasporic identity through literary and cultural analysis. In the 2023 contribution to The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory, Nguyen explores the queering of feminine movement by examining the works of Sappho, Hồ Xuân Hương, and Vi Khi Nao. This research highlights how Vi Khi Nao's poem "Sapphở" challenges patriarchal structures by intertwining sensuality and cultural symbolism, particularly through the motif of phở, which embodies the resilience and history of Vietnamese diasporic communities. Nguyen's scholarship critically engages with these figures to critique misogyny and to redefine female agency within queer diasporic spaces, proposing innovative cultural narratives such as the conceptual restaurant "Sapphở" as a queer diasporic space for lesbians. Through this work, Nguyen contributes to the broader discourse on queer theory, feminist literary studies, and diasporic cultural identity, emphasizing the intersections of gender, sexuality, and cultural heritage.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Chemistry
• Algorithm
• Mathematics
• Optics
• Nuclear magnetic resonance
• Risk analysis (engineering)
• Business
• Engineering ethics

Selected publications

• Highlights on Advancing Frontiers in Tissue Engineering

  Tissue Engineering Part B Reviews · 2021 · 124 citations

  The field of tissue engineering continues to advance, sometimes in exponential leaps forward, but also sometimes at a rate that does not fulfill the promise that the field imagined a few decades ago. This review is in part a catalog of success in an effort to inform the process of innovation. Tissue engineering has recruited new technologies and developed new methods for engineering tissue constructs that can be used to mitigate or model disease states for study. Key to this antecedent statement…

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• Fast and accurate calculation of myocardial T₁ and T₂ values using deep learning Bloch equation simulations (DeepBLESS)

  Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 2020 · 39 citations

  PURPOSE: values based on a previously proposed Bloch equation simulation with slice profile correction (BLESSPC) method. METHODS: sequence at 3 T. RESULTS: map in less than 1 second. CONCLUSION: sequences, and is promising for multiparametric mapping in cardiac MRI.

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• Ferumoxytol-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: applications and technical advances

  Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance · 2025-01-01 · 4 citations

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  relaxivities, ferumoxytol is a clinically available intravenous iron supplement that was initially designed as a diagnostic agent and in 2025, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for brain imaging. Because iron is vital for many biological processes, ferumoxytol spans both diagnostic and therapeutic dimensions. In this review, we summarize the attributes of ferumoxytol, highlight promising research directions, and illustrate several growing ferumoxytol-enhanced CMR applications…

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• Three‐Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Stellate Ganglion

  Clinical Anatomy · 2025-07-23 · 2 citations

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  Reports of visualization of the stellate ganglion via magnetic resonance imaging date back to the early 1990s. However, such imaging has not been fully utilized, presumably due to vagueness of its topographic anatomy, small size, suboptimal image quality, and limited reproducibility. Considering the recent advancements in the field of neuroradiological imaging, including magnetic resonance neurography, and emerging interests regarding cardiac neuroanatomy and neuromodulation, such as stellate ga…

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• <scp>MoCo</scp>  +  <scp>ROVir</scp> : Synergy Between Respiratory Motion Compensation and Cardiac Receive Region Focusing for Cardiac <scp>MRI</scp>

  Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 2026-02-05

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  PURPOSE: To improve cardiac motion representation and reduce artifacts for cardiac- and respiratory-resolved imaging through a synergistic combination of retrospective cardiac phased array RF focusing and rigid respiratory motion compensation (MoCo). METHODS: We incorporated cardiac receive focusing using region-optimized virtual coils (ROVir) and MoCo into cardiac- and respiratory-resolved low-rank tensor (LRT) reconstruction, hypothesizing that the combination of MoCo + ROVir would prioritize…

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Recent grants

• Cardiac MRI for Reperfusion Spatial Mapping to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes

  NIH · $2.0M · 2023–2028

• Ferumoxytol-Enhanced Cardiac MRI for Ischemic Heart Disease

  NIH · $3.8M · 2020–2026

• Expanding on a new paradigm for MRI in pediatric congenital heart disease

  NIH · $6.1M · 2015–2026

Frequent coauthors

• J. Paul Finn

  University of California, Los Angeles

  71 shared

• Peng Hu

  ShanghaiTech University

  68 shared

• Takegawa Yoshida

  34 shared

• Caroline M. Colbert

  University of California, Los Angeles

  31 shared

• Jesse W. Currier

  University of California, Los Angeles

  22 shared

• Anthony G. Christodoulou

  21 shared

• John Hollowed

  University of California, Los Angeles

  21 shared

• Jiaxin Shao

  China University of Petroleum, Beijing

  19 shared

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