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Jianhui Zhong, Ph.D.

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Phone Numbers

Office: (585) 273-4518

Research Labs

MRI research in both basic sciences and applications. Members of the group include physicists and engineers, and we collaborate broadly with neuroscientists and clinicians.

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Locations

University of Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 648
Rochester, NY 14642

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Biography

Research

Jianhui Zhong, Ph.D. is a physicist by training. He graduated from Nanjing University with a BS in Physics in 1982, and from Brown University with a Ph.D. in Physics in 1998. He joined Yale University in 1987 for post-doctoral training, was appointed as Associate Professor in 1997 and then came to University of Rochester, becoming a tenured full Professor in 2004 in Radiology, Physics and Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Zhong has over 25 years experience in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) physics, engineering and biomedical/clinical/neuroscience applications, with over 130 publications. He is one of the leading researchers for complex relaxation and diffusion effects and interactions of magnetic susceptibility and diffusion in tissues, application of diffusion in brain electrical activities and functions, and is one of the major inventors for intermolecular multiple quantum coherence brain imaging. He also has played leadership roles in international organizations, service in U.S. and international funding reviews and reviewing in leading scientific funding agencies and journals. Dr. Zhong is a grantee of many national and private funds, awardees in research excellence by the NIH, Yale and University of Rochester, and he owns 5 U.S. patents.

In recent years, Dr. Zhong's research has focused on brain diffusion tensor imaging, quantitative analysis of brain functional imaging and network analysis, fast MR imaging techniques and their applications of MRI and MRI in neuroscience, translational medicine and individual imaging analysis.

Credentials

Education

1982
BS | Nanjing University, China
Physics

1984
MS | Brown University
Physics

1988
PhD | Brown University
Physics

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

09/1987 - 12/1989
Postdoctoral Fellow Yale University School of Medicine

Awards

2004
Dean's Award for Excellency in Research, University of Rochester

2000
Summa Cum Laude Citation, the American Society of Neuroradiology

1999
Certificate of Merit Citation for Scientific Exhibit, Radiological Society of North America

1994
The Dean's Award, Yale University School of Medicine

1992
The FIRST Award, NIH

1988 - 1990
NIH research fellowship.

1982 - 1987
China US Physics Examination and Application) scholarship, Brown University.

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Publications

Journal Articles

2/21/2019
Tong Q, He H, Gong T, Li C, Liang P, Qian T, Sun Y, Ding Q, Li K, Zhong J. "Reproducibility of multi-shell diffusion tractography on traveling subjects: A multicenter study prospective." Magnetic resonance imaging.. 2019 Feb 21; Epub 2019 Feb 21.

11/2018
Cai C, Wang C, Zeng Y, Cai S, Liang D, Wu Y, Chen Z, Ding X, Zhong J. "Single-shot T mapping using overlapping-echo detachment planar imaging and a deep convolutional neural network." Magnetic resonance in medicine.. 2018 Nov 0; 80(5):2202-2214. Epub 2018 Apr 24.

9/2018
Wu Z, Bilgic B, He H, Tong Q, Sun Y, Du Y, Setsompop K, Zhong J. "Wave-CAIPI ViSTa: highly accelerated whole-brain direct myelin water imaging with zero-padding reconstruction." Magnetic resonance in medicine.. 2018 Sep 0; 80(3):1061-1073. Epub 2018 Feb 01.

Books & Chapters

2003
Chapter Title: FMRI for Monitoring Dynamic Changes in Brain Oxygenation/Blood Flow: Potential Application for Tumor Response to Carbogen Treatment
Book Title: Transport to Tissue XXII
Author List: Zhong, JH; Kwok, WE; Okunieff, P.
Edited By: Dunn, JF; Swartz, HM.
Published By: Kluwe Academic/Plenum Publishers 2003 in New York

2003
Chapter Title: Basics of Diffusion Measurements by MRI and Normal Brain and Artifacts
Book Title: Diffusion Imaging of Brain
Author List: Zhong, JH.
Edited By: Boritani, Ekholm and Westesson
Published By: Springer Verlag 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany

1996
Chapter Title: Functional MRI
Book Title: Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management
Author List: Gao, JH; Zhong, JH; Fox, P.
Edited By: Barnett, HJM; Mohr, JP; Stein, BM; Yatsu, FM.
Published By: Churchill Livingstone International 1996

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