Cheng Hong, MD
Assistant Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Dr. Hong completed a diagnostic radiology residency in the T32 Clinician-Scientist Track at UCSD, where he received the RSNA Roentgen Resident Research Award and the UCSD Robert Mattrey, MD Research Award which recognizes outstanding research among graduating residents. Dr. Hong completed a Body MRI fellowship at Stanford and joined the UCSF faculty in 2022.

Dr. Hong has a special interest in liver imaging, and has been a part of the ACR LI-RADS Steering Committee since 2016. Dr. Hong’s research interests are noninvasive hepatic fat and iron quantification using MRI and ultrasound, and the clinical outcomes of LI-RADS.

• Measurement of spleen fat on MRI-proton density fat fraction arises from reconstruction of noise.
  Abdominal radiology (New York) 2019 Hong CW, Hamilton G, Hooker C, Park CC, Tran CA, Henderson WC, Hooker JC, Fazeli Dehkordy S, Schwimmer JB, Reeder SB, Sirlin CB
• Longitudinal evolution of CT and MRI LI-RADS v2014 category 1, 2, 3, and 4 observations.
  European radiology 2019 Hong CW, Park CC, Mamidipalli A, Hooker JC, Fazeli Dehkordy S, Igarashi S, Alhumayed M, Kono Y, Loomba R, Wolfson T, Gamst A, Murphy P, Sirlin CB
• Inter-reader agreement of magnetic resonance imaging proton density fat fraction and its longitudinal change in a clinical trial of adults with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
  Abdominal radiology (New York) 2019 Hooker JC, Hamilton G, Park CC, Liao S, Wolfson T, Dehkordy SF, Hong CW, Mamidipalli A, Gamst A, Loomba R, Sirlin CB
• Reader agreement and accuracy of ultrasound features for hepatic steatosis.
  Abdominal radiology (New York) 2019 Hong CW, Marsh A, Wolfson T, Paige J, Dekhordy SF, Schlein AN, Housman E, Deiranieh LH, Li CQ, Wasnik AP, Jang HJ, Dietrich CF, Piscaglia F, Casola G, O'Boyle M, Richman KM, Valasek MA, Andre M, …
• Hepatic steatosis and reduction in steatosis following bariatric weight loss surgery differs between segments and lobes.
  European radiology 2018 Fazeli Dehkordy S, Fowler KJ, Mamidipalli A, Wolfson T, Hong CW, Covarrubias Y, Hooker JC, Sy EZ, Schlein AN, Cui JY, Gamst AC, Hamilton G, Reeder SB, Sirlin CB
• Technical report: gadoxetate-disodium-enhanced 2D R2* mapping: a novel approach for assessing bile ducts in living donors.
  Abdominal radiology (New York) 2018 Fazeli Dehkordy S, Fowler KJ, Wolfson T, Igarashi S, Lamas Constantino CP, Hooker JC, Hong CW, Mamidipalli A, Gamst AC, Hemming A, Sirlin CB
• Quantitative Elastography Methods in Liver Disease: Current Evidence and Future Directions.
  Radiology 2018 Kennedy P, Wagner M, Castéra L, Hong CW, Johnson CL, Sirlin CB, Taouli B
• Fat Quantification in the Abdomen.
  Topics in magnetic resonance imaging : TMRI 2017 Hong CW, Fazeli Dehkordy S, Hooker JC, Hamilton G, Sirlin CB
• MRI proton density fat fraction is robust across the biologically plausible range of triglyceride spectra in adults with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2017 Hong CW, Mamidipalli A, Hooker JC, Hamilton G, Wolfson T, Chen DH, Fazeli Dehkordy S, Middleton MS, Reeder SB, Loomba R, Sirlin CB
• Optimization of region-of-interest sampling strategies for hepatic MRI proton density fat fraction quantification.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2017 Hong CW, Wolfson T, Sy EZ, Schlein AN, Hooker JC, Fazeli Dehkordy S, Hamilton G, Reeder SB, Loomba R, Sirlin CB
• Cross-sectional correlation between hepatic R2* and proton density fat fraction (PDFF) in children with hepatic steatosis.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2017 Mamidipalli A, Hamilton G, Manning P, Hong CW, Park CC, Wolfson T, Hooker J, Heba E, Schlein A, Gamst A, Durelle J, Paiz M, Middleton MS, Schwimmer JB, Sirlin CB
• PRL3-zumab, a first-in-class humanized antibody for cancer therapy.
  JCI insight 2016 Thura M, Al-Aidaroos AQO, Yong WP, Kono K, Gupta A, Lin YB, Mimura K, Thiery JP, Goh BC, Tan P, Soo R, Hong CW, Wang L, Lin SJ, Chen E, Rha SY, Chung HC, Li J, Nandi S, Yuen HF, Zhang SD, Guan YK, So …
• Imaging Features of Radiofrequency Ablation with Heat-Deployed Liposomal Doxorubicin in Hepatic Tumors.
  Cardiovascular and interventional radiology 2015 Hong CW, Chow L, Turkbey EB, Lencioni R, Libutti SK, Wood BJ
• Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis with an atypical presentation in an adult man.
  Skeletal radiology 2015 Hong CW, Hsiao EC, Horvai AE, Link TM
• Use of serial multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging in the management of patients with prostate cancer on active surveillance.
  Urologic oncology 2015 Walton Diaz A, Shakir NA, George AK, Rais-Bahrami S, Turkbey B, Rothwax JT, Stamatakis L, Hong CW, Siddiqui MM, Okoro C, Raskolnikov D, Su D, Shih J, Han H, Parnes HL, Merino MJ, Simon RM, Wood BJ, …
• Is visual registration equivalent to semiautomated registration in prostate biopsy?
  BioMed research international 2015 Kwak JT, Hong CW, Pinto PA, Williams M, Xu S, Kruecker J, Yan P, Turkbey B, Choyke PL, Wood BJ
• Influence of zonal dosimetry on prostate brachytherapy outcomes.
  Journal of contemporary brachytherapy 2015 Hong CW, Reddy CA, Wilkinson DA, Klein EA, Ciezki JP
• Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound (MRI-US) fusion-guided prostate biopsies obtained from axial and sagittal approaches.
  BJU international 2014 Hong CW, Rais-Bahrami S, Walton-Diaz A, Shakir N, Su D, George AK, Merino MJ, Turkbey B, Choyke PL, Wood BJ, Pinto PA
• Imaging and pathology findings after an initial negative MRI-US fusion-guided and 12-core extended sextant prostate biopsy session.
  Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) 2014 Hong CW, Walton-Diaz A, Rais-Bahrami S, Hoang AN, Türkbey B, Stamatakis L, Xu S, Amalou H, Siddiqui MM, Nix JW, Vourganti S, Merino MJ, Choyke PL, Wood BJ, Pinto PA
• Prostate biopsy for the interventional radiologist.
  Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR 2014 Hong CW, Amalou H, Xu S, Turkbey B, Yan P, Kruecker J, Pinto PA, Choyke PL, Wood BJ
• Tapping the treasure of intracellular oncotargets with immunotherapy.
  FEBS letters 2013 Hong CW, Zeng Q
• Integrated laser-guided CT biopsy.
  Clinical imaging 2013 Hong CW, Xu S, Imbesi KL, Wood BJ
• Oncogenic roles of PRL-3 in FLT3-ITD induced acute myeloid leukaemia.
  EMBO molecular medicine 2013 Park JE, Yuen HF, Zhou JB, Al-Aidaroos AQ, Guo K, Valk PJ, Zhang SD, Chng WJ, Hong CW, Mills K, Zeng Q
• Can magnetic resonance-ultrasound fusion biopsy improve cancer detection in enlarged prostates?
  The Journal of urology 2013 Walton Diaz A, Hoang AN, Turkbey B, Hong CW, Truong H, Sterling T, Rais-Bahrami S, Siddiqui MM, Stamatakis L, Vourganti S, Nix J, Logan J, Harris C, Weintraub M, Chua C, Merino MJ, Choyke P, Wood BJ, …
• Needle slippage from needle hub hardware during ablation.
  Cardiovascular and interventional radiology 2013 Hong CW, Abi-Jaoudeh N, Wood BJ
• Awaiting a new era of cancer immunotherapy.
  Cancer research 2012 Hong CW, Zeng Q
• Collagenase-mediated tissue modeling of corneal ectasia and collagen cross-linking treatments.
  Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2012 Hong CW, Sinha-Roy A, Schoenfield L, McMahon JT, Dupps WJ
• Engineering the first chimeric antibody in targeting intracellular PRL-3 oncoprotein for cancer therapy in mice.
  Oncotarget 2012 Guo K, Tang JP, Jie L, Al-Aidaroos AQ, Hong CW, Tan CP, Park JE, Varghese L, Feng Z, Zhou J, Chng WJ, Zeng Q
• Targeting intracellular oncoproteins with antibody therapy or vaccination.
  Science translational medicine 2011 Guo K, Li J, Tang JP, Tan CP, Hong CW, Al-Aidaroos AQ, Varghese L, Huang C, Zeng Q