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Qing Zou, Ph.D.

Qing Zou, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Assistant Professor

Schools
Medical School | Graduate School
Departments
Pediatrics | Advanced Imaging Research Center | Radiology
Graduate Programs
Biomedical Engineering
  • Biography

    Dr. Zou is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Radiology, and Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC). Dr. Zou obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. Afterward, he did his postdoctoral training at the University of Iowa on Cardiac MRI. 

  • Education
    Undergraduate
    Yangzhou University (2015), Mathematics
    Graduate School
    University of Iowa (2018), Mathematics
    Graduate School
    University of Iowa (2021)
  • Research Interest
    • Pulse sequences development for cardiopulmonary MRI
    • Theoretical machine learning for MRI understanding
    • Unsupervised learning for cardiac MRI processing
  • Publications
    The Feasibility and Reproducibility of Measuring Myocardial Performance Index Using Two-Dimensional Phase Contrast Imaging in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease
    Jerbi AE, Erdem S, Gaitonde M, Gusseva M, Greil G, Zou Q, Hussain T, Fares M Pediatric Cardiology 2026 Apr 47 1732-1741
    Free-breathing dynamic MRI reconstruction via joint time-dependent coil sensitivity estimation using implicit neural representation
    Shen X, Feng J, Li Z, Zou Q, Zhang Y, Wei H Medical Image Analysis 2026 Feb 108
    Ferumoxytol-enhanced Ultrashort Echo Time MRI of Cardiovascular Stents in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease: A Feasibility Study
    Miah T, Erdem S, Fares M, Erdem O, Arar Y, Greil G, Hussain T, Zou Q Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging 2026 8
    Three-Dimensional MRI Reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Representations: Tackling the Undersampling Problem
    Peng T, Zha R, Li Z, Liu X, Zou Q IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2026
    Whole-heart magnetic resonance imaging in 1 minute: Three-dimensional fast cardiac magnetic resonance imaging technique employing the non-Cartesian ultrashort echo time sequence
    Doctor P, Fares M, Greil G, Hussain T, Zou Q Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2025 Dec 27
    Free-running isotropic three-dimensional cine magnetic resonance imaging with deep learning image reconstruction
    Erdem S, Erdem O, Stebbings S, Greil G, Hussain T, Zou Q Pediatric radiology 2025 Oct 55 2442-2456
    Accelerated Non-Contrast-Enhanced Three-Dimensional Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Deep Learning Reconstruction
    Erdem S, Erdem O, Hussain MT, Greil FG, Zou Q Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine 2025 Jul 26
    Using Multimodality Imaging and 3-Dimensional Printed Models to Guide Decision-Making for Complex Congenital Biventricular Repair
    Erdem S, Fares M, Murguia F, Moore J, Sturgeon G, Ikemba CM, Greil G, Hussain T, Andersen ND, Zou Q JACC: Case Reports 2025 Jun 30
    Feasibility of magnetization-transfer-contrast relaxation-enhanced angiography without contrast and triggering (REACT) imaging at 1.5 T combined with deep learning-based reconstruction for cardiovascular visualization
    Erdem S, Jack A, Doctor P, Greil G, Hussain T, Zou Q Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery 2025 Apr 15 3222-3236
    FDoSR-Net: Frequency-Domain Informed Auto-Encoder Network for Arbitrary-Scale 3D Whole-Heart MRI Super-Resolution
    Maciel C, Zou Q Bioengineering 2025 Feb 12
  • Honors & Awards
    • Best Paper Award Finalist
      The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2022)
    • Best Paper Award
      The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2021)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Heart Association (2022)
    • International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2019)
    • Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2022)
    • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2018)
    • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2017)