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Chien Lab
Featured Research
Hot Topic 2025, presented at the 2025 International Stroke Conference.
Research Areas
- Sequential cardiac and brain 4D Flow MRI in healthy individuals show positive correlation between aortic blood flow and cerebral blood flow pulsatility in internal carotid arteries and basilar artery.
- Watch the 2025 International Stroke Conference presentation
Christodoulou Lab
Research Areas
- MR physics, image reconstruction, and machine learning for cardiovascular diseases & cancer
- Motion-resolved quantitative imaging (e.g. free-breathing, non-ECG cardiovascular imaging)
- Multidimensional quantitative imaging and signal modeling
- Physics-informed deep learning image reconstruction
Sung Lab
Research Areas
- Quantitative multi-parametric MRI for prostate cancer and placenta
- Machine learning / deep learning algorithms for detection and characterization of body cancer (prostate and liver), post-cancer treatment toxicity-induced cardiac dysfunction
Thomas Lab
Research areas
- Neurochemistry, brain, breast, prostate, abdomen, cardiovascular, skeletal muscle
- Human breast cancer, obstructive sleep apnea, prostate cancer, type 1 and type diabetes, HIV and comorbidity
- Multi-dimensional MR spectroscopic imaging techniques, brain, breast and cardiac MRSI, biochemical and anatomical correlates of cancer
Wu Lab
Research areas
- Quantitative prostate MRI
- Quantitative liver MRI and MRE
- MRI-guided interventions and therapies
Zhong Lab
Research Areas
- MR pulse sequence design and development, accelerated data acquisition, image reconstruction algorithms, data analysis methods, deep learning networks and computational models
- Multi-dimensional qualitative and quantitative MRI techniques for cardiovascular and body applications
- Tissue mechanics (strain imaging) and fluid mechanics (flow imaging) for cardiovascular diseases and other applications