Jing Liu, PhD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

She obtained her BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, and she earned her MS in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada in 2003, followed by her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. From 2008-2010, she served as a postdoctoral associate in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. In December 2010, Dr. Liu accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Radiology in UCSF’s Cardiovascular Imaging Research Interest Group at China Basin.

Dr. Liu’s research focuses on developing magnetic-resonance imaging data acquisition techniques and image reconstruction algorithms for 3D dynamic MRI imaging, including contrast-enhanced MRA, cardiac-cine imaging, and coronary imaging. She is interested in effectively identifying important medical imaging issues and applying solutions directly to relevant problems in the clinical setting. Her goal is to develop techniques to generate MR images with high temporal and spatial resolutions with low artifacts, short scan time, and motion robustness.

Dr. Liu is a member of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Heart Association, and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Dr. Liu contributes her expertise to six professional journals as a manuscript reviewer. She has written 20+ peer-reviewed articles and 80+ abstracts.

Expertise: Cardiovascular Imaging

Specialty: Cardiovascular imaging, MRI data acquisitions, 3D dynamic MRI

Professional Interests: 4D MRI, fast imaging, cardiac MRI, coronary imaging, self-gating, non-cartesian MRI data acquisition and image reconstruction, compressed sensing, parallel imaging

Education and Training:

• Bachelor of Science: University of Science and Technology of China - Electrical Engineering
• Masters of Science: McMaster University, Canada - Electrical Engineering
• Doctor of Philosophy: University of Wisconsin-Madison - Electrical Engineering
• Postdoctoral Associate: Weill Cornell Medical College, New York - Radiology

• NIMG-45. 3D SINGLE-SCAN FOR MULTI-CONTRAST-WEIGHTED MRI FOR LESION DETECTION IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOMAS.
  Neuro-Oncology 2019 Jing Liu, Angela Jakary, Marisa Lafontaine, Yan Wang, Duan Xu, David Saloner, Nicholas Butowski, Christopher Hess, Javier Villanueva-Meyer, Susan Chang, Janine Lupo
• Technical Note: Simultaneous segmentation and relaxometry for MRI through multitask learning.
  Medical physics 2019 Cao P, Liu J, Tang S, Leynes AP, Lupo JM, Xu D, Larson PEZ
• Extending Cardiac Functional Assessment with Respiratory-Resolved 3D Cine MRI.
  Scientific reports 2019 Liu J, Wang Y, Wen Z, Feng L, Lima APS, Mahadevan VS, Bolger A, Saloner D, Ordovas K
• Self-Attention Convolutional Neural Network for Improved MR Image Reconstruction
  Information Sciences 2019 Y. Wu, Y. Ma, D. Capaldi, J. Liu, W. Zhao, J. Du, L. Xing
• Cortical bone vessel identification and quantification on contrast-enhanced MR images.
  Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery 2019 Wu PH, Gibbons M, Foreman SC, Carballido-Gamio J, Han M, Krug R, Liu J, Link TM, Kazakia GJ
• Shape-appearance constrained segmentation and separation of vein and artery in pulsatile tinnitus patients based on MR angiography and flow MRI.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2019 Wang Y, Kao E, Zhang Y, Tian B, Gong J, Faraji F, Haraldsson H, Amans MR, Saloner D, Liu J
• Multiresolution spatiotemporal mechanical model of the heart as a prior to constrain the solution for 4D models of the heart.
  Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering 2019 Gullberg GT, Veress AI, Shrestha UM, Liu J, Ordovas K, Segars WP, Seo Y
• Incorporating prior knowledge via volumetric deep residual network to optimize the reconstruction of sparsely sampled MRI.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2019 Wu Y, Ma Y, Capaldi DP, Liu J, Zhao W, Du J, Xing L
• Left ventricular geometry during unloading and the end-systolic pressure volume relationship: Measurement with a modified real-time MRI-based method in normal sheep.
  bioRxiv 2019 Duc M. Giao, Yan Wang, Renan Rojas, Kiyoaki Takaba, Anusha Badathala, Kimberly A. Spaulding, Gilbert Soon, Yue Zhang, Vicky Y. Wang, Henrik Haraldsson, Jing Liu, David Saloner, Liang Ge, Julius M. …
• Fully automatic segmentation of 4D MRI for cardiac functional measurements.
  Medical physics 2018 Wang Y, Zhang Y, Xuan W, Kao E, Cao P, Tian B, Ordovas K, Saloner D, Liu J
• Developing an efficient phase-matched attenuation correction method for quiescent period PET in abdominal PET/MRI.
  Physics in medicine and biology 2018 Yang J, Liu J, Wiesinger F, Menini A, Zhu X, Hope TA, Seo Y, Larson PEZ
• Accelerated whole brain intracranial vessel wall imaging using black blood fast spin echo with compressed sensing (CS-SPACE).
  Magma (New York, N.Y.) 2017 Zhu C, Tian B, Chen L, Eisenmenger L, Raithel E, Forman C, Ahn S, Laub G, Liu Q, Lu J, Liu J, Hess C, Saloner D
• Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Evaluation of Left Ventricular Myocardial Strain in Pulmonary Hypertension.
  Academic radiology 2017 Kallianos K, Brooks GC, Mukai K, Seguro de Carvalho F, Liu J, Naeger DM, De Marco T, Ordovas KG
• Highly accelerated intracranial 4D flow MRI: evaluation of healthy volunteers and patients with intracranial aneurysms.
  Magma (New York, N.Y.) 2017 Liu J, Koskas L, Faraji F, Kao E, Wang Y, Haraldsson H, Kefayati S, Zhu C, Ahn S, Laub G, Saloner D
• Segmentation of lumen and outer wall of abdominal aortic aneurysms from 3D black-blood MRI with a registration based geodesic active contour model.
  Medical image analysis 2017 Wang Y, Seguro F, Kao E, Zhang Y, Faraji F, Zhu C, Haraldsson H, Hope M, Saloner D, Liu J
• Highly-accelerated self-gated free-breathing 3D cardiac cine MRI: validation in assessment of left ventricular function.
  Magma (New York, N.Y.) 2017 Liu J, Feng L, Shen HW, Zhu C, Wang Y, Mukai K, Brooks GC, Ordovas K, Saloner D
• Nonlinear profile order for three-dimensional hybrid radial acquisition applied to self-gated free-breathing cardiac cine MRI
  Chinese Physics B 2017 Zhu Y, Spincemaille P, Liu J, Li S, Nguyen, T.D., Prince M.R., Xie Y., Wang Y.
• P-029 Turbulent Flow in the Venous Outflow Tract of Pulsatile Tinnitus Patients with Sigmoid Sinus Diverticulum.
  Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery 2016 S Kefayati, E Kao, J Liu, H Haraldsson, F Faraji, M Ballweber, K Meisel, V Halbach, D Saloner, M Amans
• Dilatation of the ascending aorta is associated with presence of aortic regurgitation in patients after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
  The international journal of cardiovascular imaging 2016 Ordovas KG, Keedy A, Naeger DM, Kallianos K, Foster E, Liu J, Saloner D, Hope MD
• Measuring cardiac efficiency using PET/MRI.
  EJNMMI physics 2015 Gullberg G, Aparici CM, Brooks G, Liu J, Guccione J, Saloner D, Seo AY, Ordovas KG
• High-temporospatial-resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) wrist MRI with variable-density pseudo-random circular Cartesian undersampling (CIRCUS) acquisition: evaluation of perfusion in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
  NMR in biomedicine 2015 Liu J, Pedoia V, Heilmeier U, Ku E, Su F, Khanna S, Imboden J, Graf J, Link T, Li X
• Isotropic 3D black blood MRI of abdominal aortic aneurysm wall and intraluminal thrombus.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2015 Zhu C, Haraldsson H, Faraji F, Owens C, Gasper W, Ahn S, Liu J, Laub G, Hope MD, Saloner D
• MR physics in practice: how to optimize acquisition quality and time for cardiac MR imaging.
  Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America 2015 Saloner D, Liu J, Haraldsson H
• Free-breathing 3D imaging of right ventricular structure and function using respiratory and cardiac self-gated cine MRI
  BioMed Research International 2015 Zhu Y, Liu J, Weinsaft J, Spincemaille P, Nguyen T, Prince MR, Bao S, Xie Y and Wang Y
• Highly accelerated aortic 4D flow MR imaging with variable-density random undersampling.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2014 Liu J, Dyverfeldt P, Acevedo-Bolton G, Hope M, Saloner D
• Depiction of achilles tendon microstructure in vivo using high-resolution 3-dimensional ultrashort echo-time magnetic resonance imaging at 7 T.
  Investigative radiology 2014 Han M, Larson PE, Liu J, Krug R
• Fast, free-breathing, in vivo fetal imaging using time-resolved 3D MRI technique: preliminary results.
  Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery 2014 Liu J, Glenn OA, Xu D
• Self-gated free-breathing 3D coronary CINE imaging with simultaneous water and fat visualization.
  PloS one 2014 Liu J, Nguyen TD, Zhu Y, Spincemaille P, Prince MR, Weinsaft JW, Saloner D, Wang Y
• Accelerated MRI with CIRcular Cartesian UnderSampling (CIRCUS): a variable density Cartesian sampling strategy for compressed sensing and parallel imaging.
  Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery 2014 Liu J, Saloner D
• Accelerated 4D flow imaging with variable-density cartesian undersampling and parallel imaging reconstruction.
  Critical Reviews in Computed Tomography 2013 Jing Liu, Petter Dyverfeldt, Michael D Hope, David Saloner
• Morphology enabled dipole inversion for quantitative susceptibility mapping using structural consistency between the magnitude image and the susceptibility map.
  NeuroImage 2011 Liu J, Liu T, de Rochefort L, Ledoux J, Khalidov I, Chen W, Tsiouris AJ, Wisnieff C, Spincemaille P, Prince MR, Wang Y
• Z intensity-weighted position self-respiratory gating method for free-breathing 3D cardiac CINE imaging.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2011 Spincemaille P, Liu J, Nguyen T, Prince MR, Wang Y
• Morphology enabled dipole inversion (MEDI) from a single-angle acquisition: comparison with COSMOS in human brain imaging.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2011 Liu T, Liu J, de Rochefort L, Spincemaille P, Khalidov I, Ledoux JR, Wang Y
• A novel background field removal method for MRI using projection onto dipole fields (PDF).
  NMR in biomedicine 2011 Liu T, Khalidov I, de Rochefort L, Spincemaille P, Liu J, Tsiouris AJ, Wang Y
• Single breathhold cardiac CINE imaging with multi-echo three-dimensional hybrid radial SSFP acquisition.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2010 Liu J, Wieben O, Jung Y, Samsonov AA, Reeder SB, Block WF
• Respiratory and cardiac self-gated free-breathing cardiac CINE imaging with multiecho 3D hybrid radial SSFP acquisition.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2010 Liu J, Spincemaille P, Codella NC, Nguyen TD, Prince MR, Wang Y
• Quantitative susceptibility map reconstruction from MR phase data using bayesian regularization: validation and application to brain imaging.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2010 de Rochefort L, Liu T, Kressler B, Liu J, Spincemaille P, Lebon V, Wu J, Wang Y
• 3D diffusion tensor MRI with isotropic resolution using a steady-state radial acquisition.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2009 Jung Y, Samsonov AA, Block WF, Lazar M, Lu A, Liu J, Alexander AL
• Generation and visualization of four-dimensional MR angiography data using an undersampled 3-D projection trajectory.
  IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2006 Liu J, Redmond MJ, Brodsky EK, Alexander AL, Lu A, Thornton FJ, Schulte MJ, Grist TM, Pipe JG, Block WF
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  Adaptive Beamforming with Sidelobe Control: a Second-Order Cone Programming Approach 2003 Liu J, Gershman AB, Luo ZQ, Wong KM