Xiaoxi Liu, PhD

Specialist

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Biography

Dr. Xiaoxi Liu received her PhD in Diagnostic Radiology from the University of Hong Kong with Dr. Hing Chiu Chang. She has extensive experience in sequence design with Philips pulse programming environment and imaging reconstruction in the diffusion imaging field. She is currently working on pulse sequences and imaging reconstruction for liver tumor imaging with hyperpolarized carbon-13 MRI.

Publications

A metabolite specific 3D stack-of-spirals bSSFP sequence for improved bicarbonate imaging in hyperpolarized [1-13C]Pyruvate MRI.

A robust self-referenced 2D nyquist ghost correction for different MRI-biomarker measurements based on multi-band interleaved EPI

Development of specialized magnetic resonance acquisition techniques for human hyperpolarized [13 C,15 N2 ]urea + [1-13 C]pyruvate simultaneous perfusion and metabolic imaging.

Whole-Abdomen Metabolic Imaging of Healthy Volunteers Using Hyperpolarized [1-13 C]pyruvate MRI.

Elimination of residual aliasing artifact that resembles brain lesion on multi-oblique diffusion-weighted echo-planar imaging with parallel imaging using virtual coil acquisition.

Phase correction for three-dimensional (3D) diffusion-weighted interleaved EPI using 3D multiplexed sensitivity encoding and reconstruction (3D-MUSER).

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