Key Publications

Selected Publications

  • Dong H, Shih SF, Han F, Chin RK, Hayase JH, Bradfield JS, Bedayat A, Finn JP, Cao M, Zhong X. Toward noninvasive magnetic resonance-based target delineation for ventricular tachycardia stereotactic radiation therapy: Development of a 3-dimensional wideband late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging technique. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2026:S0360-3016(26)00774-1.
  • Shih SF, Wu Y, Li S, Ming Z, Pogosyan A, Han F, Wu HH, Finn JP, Nguyen KL, Zhong X. Enhanced 2D spiral cine DENSE MRI using low-rank denoising for improved apparent signal-to-noise ratio, spatial resolution, efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility. Magn Reson Med 2026;96:403-419.
  • Zhong X, Nickel MD, Dale BM, Morin CE, Abramson Z, Pang Y, Han F, Deshpande V, Kannengiesser SAR, Tipirneni-Sajja A. Accelerated free-breathing volumetric liver proton density fat fraction (PDFF) and R2∗ quantification in pediatric patients using stack-of-radial MRI with multidimensional regularized reconstruction: a retrospective study. MAGMA. 2026:10.1007/s10334-026-01333-y. Epub ahead of print.
  • Li S, Shih SF, Pogosyan A, Ming Z, Dale BM, Han F, Finn JP, Nguyen KL, Zhong X. Reproducibility of circumferential strain on cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes magnetic resonance imaging before and after contrast at 3T. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2025;27:101931.
  • Zhong X, Nickel MD, Kannengiesser SAR, Dale BM, Han F, Gao C, Shih SF, Dai Q, Curiel O, Tsao TC, Wu HH, Deshpande V. Accelerated free-breathing liver fat and R2* quantification using multi-echo stack-of-radial MRI with motion-resolved multidimensional regularized reconstruction: Initial retrospective evaluation. Magn Reson Med 2024;92:1149-1161.
  • Gao C, Ming Z, Nguyen KL, Pang J, Bedayat A, Dale BM, Zhong X, Finn JP. Ferumoxytol-enhanced cardiac cine MRI reconstruction using a variable-splitting spatiotemporal network. J Magn Reson Imaging 2024. doi: 10.1002/jmri.29295. Epub ahead of print.
  • Gao C, Ghodrati V, Shih SF, Wu HH, Liu Y, Nickel MD, Vahle T, Dale B, Sai V, Felker E, Surawech C, Miao Q, Finn JP, Zhong X, Hu P. Undersampling artifact reduction for free-breathing 3D stack-of-radial MRI based on a deep adversarial learning network. Magn Reson Imaging 2023;95:70-79.
  • Zhong X, Armstrong T, Gao C, Nickel MD, Han F, Dale BM, Li X, Kafali SG, Hu P, Wu HH, Deshpande V. Accelerated k-space shift calibration for free-breathing stack-of-radial MRI quantification of liver fat and R2*. Magn Reson Med 2022;87:281-291.
  • Gao C, Shih SF, Finn JP, Zhong X. A projection-based k-space transformer network for undersampled radial MRI reconstruction with limited training subjects. In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2022;17:726-736.
  • Zhong X, Hu HH, Armstrong T, Li X, Lee YH, Tsao TC, Nickel MD, Kannengiesser SAR, Dale BM, Deshpande V, Kiefer B, Wu HH. Free-breathing volumetric liver R2* and proton density fat fraction quantification in pediatric patients using stack-of-radial MRI with self-gating motion compensation. J Magn Reson Imaging 2021;53:118-129. (Editorial for this paper by Mozes FE: J Magn Reson Imaging 2021;53:130-131.)
  • Zhong X, Armstrong T, Nickel MD, Kannengiesser SAR, Pan L, Dale BM, Deshpande V, Kiefer B, Wu HH. Effect of respiratory motion on free-breathing 3D stack-of-radial liver R2* relaxometry and improved quantification accuracy using self-gating. Magn Reson Med 2020;83:1964-1978.
  • Zhong X, Nickel MD, Kannengiesser SAR, Dale BM, Kiefer B, Bashir MR. Liver fat quantification using a multi-step adaptive fitting approach with multi-echo GRE imaging. Magn Reson Med 2014;72:1353-1365.
  • Zhong X, Gibberman LB, Spottiswoode BS, Gilliam AD, Meyer CH, French BA, Epstein FH. Comprehensive cardiovascular magnetic resonance of myocardial mechanics in mice using three-dimensional cine DENSE. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2011;13:83.
  • Zhong X, Spottiswoode BS, Meyer CH, Kramer CM, Epstein FH. Imaging three-dimensional myocardial mechanics using navigator-gated volumetric spiral cine DENSE MRI. Magn Reson Med 2010;64:1089-1097.