Yang Yang, PhD
Associate Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Dr. Yang was also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Yang’s expertise is MR sequence development, non-Cartesian trajectory design and application, robust motion correction, and artificial intelligence.

• Rapid 3D T1 mapping using deep learning-assisted Look-Locker inversion recovery MRI.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2023 Pei H, Xia D, Xu X, Yang Y, Wang Y, Liu F, Feng L
• Interstitial lung disease diagnosis and prognosis using an AI system integrating longitudinal data.
  Nature communications 2023 Mei X, Liu Z, Singh A, Lange M, Boddu P, Gong JQX, Lee J, DeMarco C, Cao C, Platt S, Sivakumar G, Gross B, Huang M, Masseaux J, Dua S, Bernheim A, Chung M, Deyer T, Jacobi A, Padilla M, Fayad ZA, Yang…
• Influence of thoracic radiology training on classification of interstitial lung diseases.
  Clinical imaging 2023 Lange M, Boddu P, Singh A, Gross BD, Mei X, Liu Z, Bernheim A, Chung M, Huang M, Masseaux J, Dua S, Platt S, Sivakumar G, DeMarco C, Lee J, Fayad ZA, Yang Y, Padilla M, Jacobi A
• Compact MR-compatible ergometer and its application in cardiac MR under exercise stress: A preliminary study.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2022 He B, Chen Y, Wang L, Yang Y, Xia C, Zheng J, Gao F
• Noncontrast T1ρ dispersion imaging is sensitive to diffuse fibrosis: A cardiovascular magnetic resonance study at 3T in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2022 Wang K, Zhang W, Li S, Jin H, Jin Y, Wang L, Li R, Yang Y, Zheng J, Cheng J
• Free-breathing self-gated continuous-IR spiral T1 mapping: Comparison of dual flip-angle and Bloch-Siegert B1-corrected techniques.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2022 Zhou R, Wang J, Weller DS, Yang Y, Mugler JP, Salerno M
• Repeatability and robustness of MP-GRASP T1 mapping.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2021 Li Z, Xu X, Yang Y, Feng L
• Impact of maternal obesity on neonatal heart rate and cardiac size.
  Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 2021 Groves AM, Price AN, Russell-Webster T, Jhaveri S, Yang Y, Battersby EE, Shahid S, Costa Vieira M, Hughes E, Miller F, Briley AL, Singh C, Seed PT, Chowienczyk PJ, Stern KWD, Cohen J, Pasupathy D, …
• Is there a morphometric cause of Chiari malformation type I? Analysis of existing literature.
  Neurosurgical review 2021 Shuman WH, DiRisio A, Carrasquilla A, Lamb CD, Quinones A, Pionteck A, Yang Y, Kurt M, Shrivastava RK
• Erratum to: Dual excitation flip angle simultaneous cine and T1 mapping using SPiral Acquisition with Respiratory and Cardiac Self-gating (CAT-SPARCS) (Magn Reson Med 2021; 86:82-96).
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2021 Zhou R, Weller DS, Yang Y, Wang J, Jeelani H, Mugler JP, Salerno M
• Functional and Economic Impact of INOCA and Influence of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction.
  JACC. Cardiovascular imaging 2021 Schumann CL, Mathew RC, Dean JL, Yang Y, Balfour PC, Shaw PW, Robinson AA, Salerno M, Kramer CM, Bourque JM
• Diagnostic Accuracy of Spiral Whole-Heart Quantitative Adenosine Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance With Motion Compensated L1-SPIRIT.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2021 Pan JA, Robinson AA, Yang Y, Lozano PR, McHugh S, Holland EM, Meyer CH, Taylor AM, Kramer CM, Salerno M
• High spatial resolution spiral first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging with whole-heart coverage at 3 T.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2021 Wang J, Yang Y, Weller DS, Zhou R, Van Houten M, Sun C, Epstein FH, Meyer CH, Kramer CM, Salerno M
• Dual-excitation flip-angle simultaneous cine and T1 mapping using spiral acquisition with respiratory and cardiac self-gating.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2021 Zhou R, Weller DS, Yang Y, Wang J, Jeelani H, Mugler JP, Salerno M
• Quantification of myocardial oxygen extraction fraction: A proof-of-concept study.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2021 Lu L, Eldeniz C, An H, Li R, Yang Y, Schindler TH, Peterson LR, Woodard PK, Zheng J
• Amplified Flow Imaging (aFlow): A Novel MRI-Based Tool to Unravel the Coupled Dynamics Between the Human Brain and Cerebrovasculature.
  IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2020 Abderezaei J, Martinez J, Terem I, Fabris G, Pionteck A, Yang Y, Holdsworth SJ, Nael K, Kurt M
• Free-Breathing and Ungated Dynamic MRI Using Navigator-Less Spiral SToRM.
  IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2020 Ahmed AH, Zhou R, Yang Y, Nagpal P, Salerno M, Jacob M
• Artificial intelligence-enabled rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 patients.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Mei X, Lee HC, Diao K, Huang M, Lin B, Liu C, Xie Z, Ma Y, Robson PM, Chung M, Bernheim A, Mani V, Calcagno C, Li K, Li S, Shan H, Lv J, Zhao T, Xia J, Long Q, Steinberger S, Jacobi A, Deyer T, Luksza…
• Chest CT Findings in Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19): Relationship to Duration of Infection.
  Radiology 2020 Bernheim A, Mei X, Huang M, Yang Y, Fayad ZA, Zhang N, Diao K, Lin B, Zhu X, Li K, Li S, Shan H, Jacobi A, Chung M
• CT Imaging Features of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
  Radiology 2020 Chung M, Bernheim A, Mei X, Zhang N, Huang M, Zeng X, Cui J, Xu W, Yang Y, Fayad ZA, Jacobi A, Li K, Li S, Shan H
• Non-Cartesian slice-GRAPPA and slice-SPIRiT reconstruction methods for multiband spiral cardiac MRI.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2019 Sun C, Yang Y, Cai X, Salerno M, Meyer CH, Weller D, Epstein FH
• Frequency of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis (Measured by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance) in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction.
  The American journal of cardiology 2019 Löffler AI, Pan JA, Balfour PC, Shaw PW, Yang Y, Nasir M, Auger DA, Epstein FH, Kramer CM, Gan LM, Salerno M
• Free-breathing cine imaging with motion-corrected reconstruction at 3T using SPiral Acquisition with Respiratory correction and Cardiac Self-gating (SPARCS).
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2019 Zhou R, Yang Y, Mathew RC, Mugler JP, Weller DS, Kramer CM, Ahmed AH, Jacob M, Salerno M
• Correction to: Simple motion correction strategy reduces respiratory-induced motion artifacts for k-t accelerated and compressed-sensing cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2018 Zhou R, Huang W, Yang Y, Chen X, Weller DS, Kramer CM, Kozerke S, Salerno M
• Quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging identifies reduced flow reserve in microvascular coronary artery disease.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2018 Zorach B, Shaw PW, Bourque J, Kuruvilla S, Balfour PC, Yang Y, Mathew R, Pan J, Gonzalez JA, Taylor AM, Meyer CH, Epstein FH, Kramer CM, Salerno M
• Simple motion correction strategy reduces respiratory-induced motion artifacts for k-t accelerated and compressed-sensing cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2018 Zhou R, Huang W, Yang Y, Chen X, Weller DS, Kramer CM, Kozerke S, Salerno M
• Robust free-breathing SASHA T1 mapping with high-contrast image registration.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2016 Chow K, Yang Y, Shaw P, Kramer CM, Salerno M
• Accelerated two-dimensional cine DENSE cardiovascular magnetic resonance using compressed sensing and parallel imaging.
  Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2016 Chen X, Yang Y, Cai X, Auger DA, Meyer CH, Salerno M, Epstein FH
• Adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance with variable-density spiral pulse sequences accurately detects coronary artery disease: initial clinical evaluation.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging 2014 Salerno M, Taylor A, Yang Y, Kuruvilla S, Ragosta M, Meyer CH, Kramer CM
• Motion-compensated compressed sensing for dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI using regional spatiotemporal sparsity and region tracking: block low-rank sparsity with motion-guidance (BLOSM).
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2013 Chen X, Salerno M, Yang Y, Epstein FH
• Comparison of methods for determining the partition coefficient of gadolinium in the myocardium using T1 mapping.
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2012 Salerno M, Janardhanan R, Jiji RS, Brooks J, Adenaw N, Mehta B, Yang Y, Antkowiak P, Kramer CM, Epstein FH
• SPHERE: SPherical Harmonic Elastic REgistration of HARDI data.
  NeuroImage 2010 Yap PT, Chen Y, An H, Yang Y, Gilmore JH, Lin W, Shen D