Journal of Radiology
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Jiang Du

Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, USA

Biography

 Dr. Jiang Du is developing novel quantitative ultrashort echo time magnetization transfer (UTE-MT) imaging and signal modeling techniques to quantify water and macromolecule proton fractions and exchange rates in short T2 tissues such as cortical bone. The UTE-MT modeling parameters are magic angle insensitive, and may be used to evaluate tissue degeneration more reliably than conventional biomarkers such as T2 and T1rho which are very sensitive to the magic angle effect.

Publications

Ultrashort TE (UTE) Imaging of the Knee Cartilage at 3T

While MR imaging has emerged as the imaging method of choice for diagnosis of cartilage disease, the deep radial and calcified layers of cartilage are difficult to image with conventional MRI because of their short T2 relaxation times. The imaging of cartilage injury and osteoarthritis (OA) has therefore focused on the superficial layers of cartil... Read More»

Song Gao, Shanglian Bao, Christine B Chung, Graeme M Bydder and Jiang Du

Research Article: OMICS J Radiology 2013, 2: 118

DOI: 10.4172/2167-7964.1000118

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