Associate Professor - CT Physicist Department of Radiology, Indiana University School of Medicine   Email: Yun Liang, Ph.D. PubMed

Dr. Liang's research interest is to develop imaging techniques for biomedical studies using X-ray computed tomography (CT). Currently she is working on (1) methodology design for quantifying tissue physiology and evaluation of the methods with other references; (2) instrumentation development for new generation of microCT and its integration with photo-acoustic CT to achieve the combined capability of high-resolution structural and molecular imaging in small animals.

Education Training

Graduate: State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Doctorate:State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Department of Radiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

1. Liang Y and RA Kruger, "Dual-slice Spiral versus Single-slice Spiral Scanning: Comparison of the Physical performance of Two Computed Tomography Scanners." Med Phys 24(2): 205-220, 1996.
2. Liang Y and RA Kruger, "Response to modulation transfer functions of single-slice and dual-slice computed tomography scanners." Med Phys 23(11): 1865, 1996
3. Wei J, Sandison GA, Chen L, Liang Y, Xu L, " X-ray CT high density artifact suppression in cryosurgery ", Physics In Medicine and Biology, 47:N319-N326, 2002.
4. Liang, Y. Stantz, K. M. Krishnamurthi, G. Chen, L. Hutchins, G. D., "Investigation of Contrast-Enhanced In-Vivo Animal Imaging With Micro-CT". IMECE, VOL 54, pages 139-144, 2002
5. Chen L, Liang Y, Heuscher DJ, "General Surface Reconstruction of Cone-beam Multi-slice CT". Med. Phys. 30 (10): 2804-2821, 2003
6. Liang Y, Stantz KM, Krishnamurthi G, Steinmetz R, Hutchins GD, " Development of contrast-enhanced rodent imaging using functional CT." Proc. SPIE Vol. 5031, P. 140-148, 2003.
7. Rydberg J, Liang Y, Teague SD, Fundamentals of multichannel CT, Radio Clin N Am 41 465-474. 2003
8. Krishnamurthi G, Stantz KM, Steinmetz R, Gattone VH, Hutchins GD, Liang Y, Functional imaging in small animals using X-ray computed tomography. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, p.832-843, 2005.
9. Stantz KM, Liu B, Cao Minsong, Reinecke D, Dzemidzic M, Liang Y, Kruger R. "Evaluating Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced and Photoacoustic CT to Assess Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity in Xenograft Mouse Models", Proc. SPIE Vol. 6143:489-500, (2006).

Positions/Honors/Support

Scientific Reviewer, National Institute of Health

Session chair, SPIE (The International Society for Optical Imaging) Meetings

2001 - 2004 Whitaker Foundation (PI: Liang), "Ungated Cardiac Imaging with Subsecond Multi-slice Spiral CT."

2005 - 2006 Whitaker Foundation (PI: Liang), "Feasibility Evaluation of Functional MicroCT for Tumor Physiology in Rodents."

2004 NIH SBIR (Subcontract PI: Liang), "Development of functional microCT applications for rodents." 5R44CA001807-03

Last update: 9/12/2007