Jiaen Liu, Ph.D.

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Email: jiaen.liu at utsouthwestern.edu

Undergraduate

Tsinghua University (2005), Environmental Engineering

Graduate School

Tsinghua University (2007), Instrument Sci & Tech

Graduate School

Uni of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2015), Biomedical Engineering

• Fast and motion-robust MRI acquisition and reconstruction
• High-resolution MRI for in vivo imaging intracortical structure and deep nuclei
• Novel MRI contrast and quantification of tissue properties, e.g. relaxometry, microstructure, electromagnetic properties, etc.

Featured Publications

Effect of motion, cortical orientation and spatial resolution on quantitative imaging of cortical R₂* and magnetic susceptibility at 0.3 mm in-plane resolution at 7 T.

van Gelderen P, Li X, de Zwart JA, Beck ES, Okar SV, Huang Y, Lai K, Sulam J, van Zijl PCM, Reich DS, Duyn JH, Liu J, Neuroimage 2023 Apr 270 119992

Navigator-Guided Motion and B0 Correction of T2*-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Improves Multiple Sclerosis Cortical Lesion Detection

Liu J*, Beck E*, Filippini S, van Gelderen P, de Zwart JA, Norato G, Sati P, Al-Louzi O, Kolb H, Donadieu M, Morrison M, Duyn JH, Reich D Investi Radiol 2021

Reducing motion sensitivity in 3D high-resolution T₂*-weighted MRI by navigator-based motion and nonlinear magnetic field correction.

Liu J, van Gelderen P, de Zwart JA, Duyn JH, Neuroimage 2020 02 206 116332

Gradient-based electrical properties tomography (gEPT): A robust method for mapping electrical properties of biological tissues in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging.

Liu J, Zhang X, Schmitter S, Van de Moortele PF, He B Magn Reson Med 2015 Sep 74 3 634-46

Determining electrical properties based on B1 fields measured in an MR scanner using a multi-channel transmit/receive coil: a general approach.

Liu J, Zhang X, Van de Moortele PF, Schmitter S, He B Phys Med Biol 2013 Jul 58 13 4395-408

Cortical lesions uniquely predict motor disability accrual and form rarely in the absence of new white matter lesions in multiple sclerosis.

Beck ES, Mullins WA, Silva JDS, Filippini S, Parvathaneni P, Maranzano J, Morrison M, Suto DJ, Donnay C, Dieckhaus H, Luciano NJ, Sharma K, Gaitán MI, Liu J, de Zwart JA, van Gelderen P, Cortese I, Narayanan S, Duyn JH, Nair G, Sati P, Reich DS, medRxiv 2023 Sep

Joint k-TE Space Image Reconstruction and Data Fitting for T2 Mapping.

Dai Y, Jia X, Liao YP, Liu J, Deng J, ArXiv 2023 Jan

Improved test-retest reliability of R₂* and susceptibility quantification using multishot multi-echo 3D EPI.

Huang Y, Chen L, Li X, Liu J, Magn Reson Med 2023

Mapping electrical properties heterogeneity of tumor using boundary informed electrical properties tomography (BIEPT) at 7T.

Wang Y, Shao Q, Van de Moortele PF, Racila E, Liu J, Bischof J, He B, Magn Reson Med 2019 01 81 1 393-409

Effect of head motion on MRI B₀ field distribution.

Liu J, de Zwart JA, van Gelderen P, Murphy-Boesch J, Duyn JH, Magn Reson Med 2018 12 80 6 2538-2548

• ISMRM Junior Fellow
  (2019)
• NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence
  (2019)
• Best Abstract Presentation in ISMRM Motion Study Group
  (2017)
• Best Dissertation Award in Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  (2017)