Jiaen Liu, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Endowed Title TI Scholar in Advanced Imaging Technologies Schools Medical School | Graduate School Departments Advanced Imaging Research Center | Radiology Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering Biography I am the director of the BioMedical Imaging Research Lab (BiMIR) affiliated with the Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) at UTSW. Our research is focused on novel advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) development and applications in neurological disorders and neurodegeneration. Our topics cover in vivo imaging of brain iron, myelin, glymphatic function, cerebrovascular function and hemodynamics. These have led to fruitful applications in diseases including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, etc. Email: jiaen.liu at utsouthwestern.edu Education Undergraduate Tsinghua University (2005), Environmental Engineering Graduate School Tsinghua University (2007), Instrument Sci & Tech Graduate School Uni of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2015), Biomedical Engineering Research Interest Clinical applications of advanced neuro MRI High spatiotemporal resolution functional MRI Novel MRI contrast for imaging tissue properties and physiology Quantitative high-resolution MRI for in vivo histology Publications Featured Publications Non-invasive MRI measurements of age-dependent in vivo human glymphatic exchange using magnetization transfer spin labeling. Kim D, Huang Y, Liu J, Neuroimage 2025 Mar 121142 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 Mesoscale Whole-Brain T2*-Weighted and Associated Quantitative MRI in Humans at 10.5 T. Liu J, van Gelderen P, de Zwart JA, Duyn JH, Huang Y, Qu S, Grant A, Auerbach EJ, Waks M, Lagore RL, Delabarre L, Sadeghi-Tarakameh A, Eryaman Y, Adriany G, Ugurbil K, Wu X, Magn Reson Med 2026 Apr Advancing whole-brain BOLD functional MRI in humans at 10.5 T with motion-robust 3D echo-planar imaging, parallel transmission, and high-density radiofrequency receive coils. Qu S, Liu J, van Gelderen P, de Zwart JA, Duyn JH, Waks M, Lagore R, Bratch A, Grant A, Auerbach E, Delabarre L, Sadeghi-Tarakameh A, Eryaman Y, Adriany G, Ugurbil K, Wu X, Magn Reson Med 2026 Feb 95 2 1068-1088 Hippocampal Subfield Susceptibility Alterations in Mild Cognitive Impairment Revealed by 7T MRI. Zheng G, Yu FF, Huang Y, Mazumder S, Vargas SL, Unschuld PG, Kagerer SM, Li X, Liu J, AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2025 Nov Joint k-b space diffusion-weighted image reconstruction and apparent diffusion coefficient fitting for diffusion-weighted turbo-spin-echo imaging. Dai Y, Jia X, Liu J, Liao YP, Deng J, Med Phys 2025 Jan T2 contrast variation in human brain at 7 T and its potential contributors. Wang Y, van Gelderen P, Donadieu M, Liu J, de Zwart JA, Zhou J, Nair G, Reich DS, Duyn JH, Imaging Neurosci (Camb) 2025 3 Contribution of new and chronic cortical lesions to disability accrual in multiple sclerosis. Beck ES, Mullins WA, Dos Santos Silva J, 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, Brain Commun 2024 6 3 fcae158 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 Results 1-10 of 26 1 2 3 Next Last Honors & Awards 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)
