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Xiaodong Zhong, PhD

Associate Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States

Xiaodong Zhong, PhD is an Associate Professor of Radiological Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on the design and development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) solutions including pulse sequence, data reconstruction and image processing techniques, and translation of these techniques to advance clinical and research applications. He was a lead developer for the Siemens product LiverLab MRI package for fat and iron quantification. He is one of the early researchers in the field of MR strain imaging and developed several strain imaging pulse sequences, including the 2D breath-hold and 4D free-breathing spiral displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) techniques. He was among the first to publish papers on the measurement of displacement, strain, and mechanics in various organs such as the heart, vessel, brain and skeletal muscle. The current research of his lab focuses on developing translational MRI techniques for ferumoxytol-enhanced multi-dimensional imaging, leveraging the unique characteristics of ferumoxytol as a contrast agent (off-label use) and novel image acquisition acceleration algorithms including artificial intelligence (AI) based networks for various cardiovascular applications. One key highlight is a single breath-hold 4D MUlti-phase Steady-state Imaging with Contrast (MUSIC) technique with fast data acquisition, immediate inline reconstruction and superior image quality and contrast that holds significant potential for applications across diverse populations with congenital or acquired heart diseases.

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