Jianhui Zhong, Ph.D.

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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

Additional Links

University of Rochester Center for Brain Imaging

Faculty Appointments

Professor - Department of Imaging Sciences (SMD)
Professor - Department of Biomedical Engineering (SMD) - Joint
Professor - Department of Physics & Astronomy A&S (RC) - Joint

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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Patents

Patent Title: System and Method for Three-Dimensional Interleaved Water and Fat Image Acquisition with Chemical-Shift Correction
Patent #: 6,373,249
Issue Date: Apr 16, 2002
Country: United States
Invented By: Wingchi E Kwok, Saara Totterman, Jianhui Zhong

Patent Title: Optimized Orthogonal Gradient Technique for Fast Quantitative Diffusion MRI on a Clinical Scanner
Patent #: 6,288,540
Issue Date: Sep 11, 2001
Country: United States
Invented By: Zhong Chen, Wingchi E Kwok, Jianhui Zhong

Patent Title: Intermolecular Multiple-Quantum MR Imaging in Humans
Patent #: 6,528,997
Issue Date: Mar 04, 2003
Country: United States
Invented By: Zhong Chen, Wingchi E Kwok, Jianhui Zhong

Patent Title: Interleaved Water and Fat Dual-Echo Spin Echo Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Intrinsic Chemical Shift Elimination
Patent #: 6,583,623
Issue Date: Jun 24, 2003
Country: United States
Invented By: Wingchi E Kwok, Saara Totterman, Jianhui Zhong

Patent Title: Cryogenically Cooled Phased Array RF Receiver Coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Patent #: 7,002,348
Issue Date: Feb 21, 2006
Country: United States
Invented By: Wingchi E Kwok, Zhigang You, Jianhui Zhong

Patent Title: Cryogenically Cooled Phased Array RF Receiver Coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Patent #: 6,825,664
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2004
Country: United States
Invented By: Wingchi E Kwok, Zhigang You, Jianhui Zhong

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Publications

Journal Articles

5/6/2021
Cole M, Murray K, St-Onge E, Risk B, Zhong J, Schifitto G, Descoteaux M, Zhang Z. "Surface-Based Connectivity Integration: An atlas-free approach to jointly study functional and structural connectivity." Human brain mapping.. 2021 May 6; Epub 2021 May 06.

4/15/2021
Uddin MN, Faiyaz A, Wang L, Zhuang Y, Murray KD, Descoteaux M, Tivarus ME, Weber MT, Zhong J, Qiu X, Schifitto G. "A longitudinal analysis of brain extracellular free water in HIV infected individuals." Scientific reports.. 2021 Apr 15; 11(1):8273. Epub 2021 Apr 15.

3/9/2021
Zhong J. "Using AI to Generate Missing MRI Pulse Information for Tumor Segmentation." Radiology.. 2021 Mar 9; :210137. Epub 2021 Mar 09.

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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