Liqiang Ren, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor School Medical School Department 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 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 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 Lipid Microparticle-Based Phantoms Modeling Hepatic Steatosis for the Validation of Quantitative Imaging Techniques Endsley C, Ali S, Salhadar K, Woodward A, Garland S, Santelli J, Salimabad MZ, Ren L, Yokoo T, Rosado-Mendez IM, Fetzer DT, de Gracia Lux C Small Methods 2025 Aug 9 Photon-Counting-Detector CT: Technology Overview and Radiation Dose Reduction Ren L, Duan X, Ahn RW, Kay FU, Daftaribesheli L, Zhou W, Guild JB, Ananthakrishnan L British Journal of Radiology 2025 May Optimal Spectral Performance on Pediatric Photon-Counting CT Investigating Phantom-Based Size-Dependent kV Selection for Spectral Body Imaging Zhou W, Ataei A, Huo D, Ren L, Browne LP, Zhou X, Weinman JP Investigative Radiology 2025 Apr 60 245-252 Getting Started with Photon-counting CT: Optimizing Your Setup for Success Schwartz FR, Dane B, Su S, Khanungwanitkul K, Ren L, Ananthakrishnan L Radiographics 2025 Feb 45 Optimizing Photon-Counting CT Protocol for Enhanced Pancreatic Cancer Imaging: A Phantom Study Comparing kV Settings and Imaging Modes Ren L, Duan X, Ahn R, Lux C, Endsley C, Chiu T, Cotton T, Kaza R, Xi Y, Ananthakrishnan L 2025 Evaluation of Spectral Performance in Photon-Counting CT for Breast Cancer Imaging: A Feasibility Phantom Study Ren L, Soesbe T, Lewis M, Xi Y, Seiler S, Ataei A, Liu H, Li Y, Ahn R 2025 Performance evaluation of single- and dual-contrast spectral imaging on a photon-counting-detector CT Ren L, Zhou Z, Ahmed Z, Rajendran K, Fletcher JG, McCollough CH, Yu L Medical physics 2024 Nov 51 8034-8046 Approaches, advantages, and challenges to photon counting detector and multi-energy CT Toia GV, Mileto A, Borhani AA, Chen GH, Ren L, Uyeda JW, Marin D Abdominal Radiology 2024 Sep 49 3251-3260 Results 1-10 of 65 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2017) Radiological Society of North America (2023)
