Duan Xu, PhD

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Duan Xu
Professor at UCSF

Duan Xu, PhD, is a Professor in Residence and leads the Imaging Research for Neurodevelopment Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco Parnassus and Mission Bay. Dr. Xu obtained his BA in Integrated Science and BS in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1999, followed by his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley in 2005. He is a member of the Advanced Imaging Technologies Resource Group and a member of the Pediatric and Fetal Research Interest Group specializing in the baby brain.

Dr. Xu’s research focuses on investigating new MRI techniques using primary applications in pediatric neuroradiology. Another research focus is the development of new techniques for ultrahigh field MR scanners involving small animal images, in vivo and ex vivo. Dr. Xu is developing high resolution MR anatomic, diffusion, and spectroscopic techniques with unprecedented resolution in collaboration with various colleagues in Neurodevelopment Biology, Neurology, Pediatrics, Neonatology, and Physiology.

Dr. Xu is an active member of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Society of Neuroradiology, the Society of Molecular Imaging, and the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society.

Expertise:
MRI, diffusion, spectroscopy, pediatrics, brain, neurodevelopment

Honors and Awards
Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2021
Distinguished Investigator, Academy of Radiology Research, 2016
MRM Distinguished Reviewer, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Journal, 2011
Surbeck Scholarship Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2006
ARCS Scholarship, ARCS Foundation, 2003
Graduate Research Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2003
NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation, 2002

Publications

Consensus recommendations for hyperpolarized [1- 13 C ]pyruvate MRI multi-center human studies.

Magnetic resonance in medicine

Shonit Punwani, Peder E. Z. Larson, Christoffer Laustsen, Jan VanderMeulen, Jan Henrik Ardenkjær-Larsen, Adam W. Autry, James A. Bankson, Jenna Bernard, Robert Bok, Lotte Bonde Bertelsen, Jenny Che, Albert P. Chen, Rafat Chowdhury, Arnaud Comment, Charles H. Cunningham, Duy Dang, Ferdia A. Gallagher, Adam Gaunt, Yangcan Gong, Jeremy W. Gordon, Ashley Grimmer, James Grist, Esben Søvsø Szocska Hansen, Mathilde Hauge Lerche, Richard L. Hesketh, Jan-Bernd Hoevener, Ching-Yi Hsieh, Kayvan R. Keshari, Sebastian Kozerke, Titus Lanz, Dirk Mayer, Mary McLean, Jae Mo Park, Jim Slater, Damian Tyler, Jean-Luc Vanderheyden, Cornelius von Morze, Fulvio Zaccagna, Vlad Zaha, Duan Xu, Daniel Vigneron

Integrating neuroimaging biomarkers into the multicentre, high-dose erythropoietin for asphyxia and encephalopathy (HEAL) trial: rationale, protocol and harmonisation.

BMJ open

Wisnowski JL, Bluml S, Panigrahy A, Mathur AM, Berman J, Chen PK, Dix J, Flynn T, Fricke S, Friedman SD, Head HW, Ho CY, Kline-Fath B, Oveson M, Patterson R, Pruthi S, Rollins N, Ramos YM, Rampton J, Rusin J, Shaw DW, Smith M, Tkach J, Vasanawala S, Vossough A, Whitehead MT, Xu D, Yeom K, Comstock B, Heagerty PJ, Juul SE, Wu YW, McKinstry RC, HEAL Study Group