Jiaen Liu, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Endowed Title TI Scholar in Advanced Imaging Technologies School Medical School Department 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 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 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 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 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 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 Results 1-10 of 22 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)
