Liqiang Ren, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Radiology Biography Liqiang Ren, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern and serves as a Diagnostic Medical Physicist in the Medical Physics Division. Dr. Ren holds a bachelor's degree in optoelectronics science and technology joint program from Nankai University and Tianjin University in Tianjin, China, and earned his master’s degree in optical engineering from Tianjin University. He, then, earned his doctorate degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and received advanced training in diagnostic imaging in the Medical Physics Residency Program at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in addition to completion of CAMPEP Accredited Certificate Program at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Ren’s research has led to the publication of multiple original articles in peer-reviewed journals, and has also presented research at multiple national and regional society meetings and conferences. Dr. Ren is an active member of the Radiological Society of North America, a full member of American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and certified in diagnostic medical physics from the American Board of Radiology. Publications Patient-specific timing acquisition for coronary CT angiography: A retrospective patient validation study Molloi S, Mostafavi S, Shojazadeh A, Grace K, Leska-Kent CE, Truong J, Hyde K, Ren L, Brewingtown C European Journal of Radiology Open 2026 Jun 16 Phantom evaluation of spectral performance in photon-counting CT for breast cancer imaging Ren L, Xi Y, Ananthakrishnan L, Soesbe T, Lewis M, Seiler S, Ataei A, Liu H, Li Y, Ahn RW Medical physics 2026 May 53 Improving Iodine Quantification Performance on a Clinical Photon-Counting CT with Noise-Optimized Virtual Monoenergetic Imaging Anam N, Roth S, Ren L 2026 Apr Dual-contrast iodine-bismuth imaging with clinical photon-counting CT: optimization of virtual monoenergetic image pairs for enhanced visualizations and quantifications Roth S, Thapa D, Ataei A, Vasan V, Ahn RW, Yu L, Xi Y, Ren L 2026 Apr Evaluating inter-institutional reproducibility of quantitative spectral results with clinical photon-counting CT: Initial results using the same scanner, protocol, and phantom Liu LP, Rybertt MV, Noël PB, Ren L, Duan X, Rajendran K, Zhang D, Kim GH, McNitt-Gray MF 2026 Apr The American college of radiology diagnostic fluoroscopy dose index registry pilot: Dosimetric performance and benchmarking challenges Mann SD, Miller DL, Fong G, Goode AR, Marshall EL, Nishino T, Boxx P, Ren L, Topbas C, Schoenfeld AH, Singh V, Zhang J Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2026 Feb 27 Image quality and radiation dose comparison for abdominopelvic CT studies performed using photon-counting CT and dual-energy CT: a clinical study Aljabal A, Ananthakrishnan L, Yadu N, Goel A, Zeikus E, Ahn R, Ren L, Xi Y, Duan X BJR Open 2026 Jan 8 Defining window settings for abdominopelvic photon-counting CT virtual monoenergetic imaging: quantitative and qualitative evaluation Ren L, Ahn RW, Vasan V, Duan X, Imphean D, Xi Y, Goel A, Zhang Y, Nair V, Xu G, Ananthakrishnan L European Journal of Radiology 2026 Jan 194 Iodine and bismuth dual-contrast imaging on photon-counting CT with noise-optimized virtual monoenergetic imaging: Phantom and patient studies Roth S, Thapa D, Ataei A, Vasan V, Ahn RW, Yu L, Xi Y, Ren L Medical physics 2026 Jan 53 Photon-counting detector CT: technology overview and radiation dose reduction Ren L, Duan X, Ahn R, Kay FU, Daftaribesheli L, Zhou W, Guild J, Ananthakrishnan L British Journal of Radiology 2025 Nov 98 1788-1801 Results 1-10 of 76 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2017) Radiological Society of North America (2023)
