Yiping Du is the ZhiYuan Professor of Biomedical Engineering. His primary research interest is in the development of novel magnetic resonance imaging technology, including real-time imaging in therapy, 4D imaging of the moving organs in the chest and abdomen, and quantitative imaging of the brain. These techniques can be used for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. He is particularly interested in methods for integrating real-time imaging and 4D MRI with medical robots, radiation therapy, and interventional procedures. These advance imaging techniques are developed through novel pulse sequences, image reconstruction algorithms, deep-learning neural networks, image processing algorithms, etc.

1978-1982 BE - Zhejiang University, China

1984-1987 ME - Zhejiang University, China

1988-1995 PhD – University of Utah, USA

1. 2017-Present Director, Institute for Medical Imaging Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2. 2016-Present ZhiYuan Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
3. 2013-2015 Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
4. 2010-2015 QiuShi Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
5. 2009-2010 Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA
6. 2002-2010   Technical Director, Brain Imaging Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine
7. 2002-2009   Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA
8. 2000-2002 Research Associate (Assistant Professor) of Radiology, Brain Research Imaging Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
9. 1997-1999 Visiting Scientist (faculty), Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
10. 1997-1999 MR Scientist, Applied Science Laboratory, GE-Medical Systems, Milwaukee, USA
11. 1995-1997 MR Engineer, General Electric-Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Medical Imaging, magnetic resonance imaging

Patent Award, GE-Medical Systems, 1998

Genius of Invention Award, GE-Medical Systems, 1997

Stauffer Award (the Best Scientific Paper in Investigative Radiology in 1993) from the Association of University Radiologists, first author.

1. Deputy Chair, the Committee for Medical Imaging Physics, the Society of Medical Physics China (2011-present)
2. Member, Committee for Young Investigative Awards, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (1997-2020)
3. Member, Academic Committee of Zhejiang University（2014-2015）
4. Associate Chair, Academic Committee of the Faculty of Information Technology, Zhejiang University（2013-2015）
5. Deputy Chair, Magnetic Resonance imaging Committee, The Association of Medical Equipment of China（2013-2015）
6. President, the Overseas Chinese Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2014-2015)

Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Applications (Fall, 2017-2020)

1. Chen Q, She H, Du YP. Whole Brain Myelin Water Mapping in One Minute using Tensor Dictionary Learning with Low-Rank Plus Sparse Regularization. IEEE-TMI, in press
2. Chen X, Zhu A, Du YP. Center-out EPI (COEPI): A fast single-shot imaging technique with a short TE. Magn Reson Med. 2020,84:787-799. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28175.
3. Chen Q, She H, Du YP. Improved quantification of myelin water fraction using joint sparsity of T2 * distribution. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2020;52:146-58.
4. Wu Z, Bilgic B, He H, Tong Q, Sun Y, Du YP, Setsompop K, Zhong J. Wave-CAIPI ViSTa: highly accelerated whole-brain direct myelin water imaging with zero-padding reconstruction. Magn Reson Med. 2018;80:1061-73.
5. Ye H, Cauley SF, Gagoski B, Bilgic B, Ma D, Jiang Y, Du YP, Griswold MA, Wald LL, Setsompop K. Simultaneous multislice magnetic resonance fingerprinting (SMS-MRF) with direct-spiral slice-GRAPPA (ds-SG) reconstruction. Magn Reson Med. 2017;77:1966-1974.
6. Jin Z, Xia L, M Lou, M Zhang, Du YP. MR Venography of the Brain with Enhanced Vessel Contrast Using Image-Domain High-Pass Filtering of the Susceptibility Phase Shift. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011;34:1218-25.
7. Hwang D, Chung H, Nam Y, Du YP, Jang U. Robust mapping of the myelin water fraction in the presence of noise: Synergic combination of anisotropic diffusion filter and spatially regularized nonnegative least squares algorithm. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011;34:189-95.
8. Hwang D, Kim D, Du YP. In vivo multislice mapping of myelin water content using T2* decay. NeuroImage, 2010;52:198-204.
9. Du YP, Jin Z, Robust tissue-air volume segmentation of MR images based on the statistics of phase and magnitude: Its applications in the display of susceptibility weighted imaging of the brain, J Magn Reson Imaging. 2009;30:722-731.
10. Du YP, Jin Z, Hu Y, Tanabe J. Multi-echo MR angiography and venography in the brain at 3T, J Magn Reson Imaging. 2009;30:449-454.
11. Hwang D, Du YP, Improved myelin water quantification using spatially regularized nonnegative least squares algorithm. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2009;30:203-208.
12. Jin Z, Xia L, Du YP. Reduction of Artifacts in Susceptibility Weighted MR Venography of the Brain. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008;28:327-33.
13. Du YP, Jin Z. Simultaneous acquisition of MR angiography and venography (MRAV). Magn Reson Med. 2008;59:954-8.
14. Du YP, Chu R, Hwang D, Brown MS, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Singel D, Simon JH. Fast multislice mapping of the myelin water fraction using multicompartment analysis of T2* Decay at 3T – A preliminary postmortem study. Magn Reson Med. 2007;58:865-70.
15. Du YP, Dalwani M, Wylie K, Claus E, Tregellas JR. Reducing susceptibility artifacts in fMRI using volume-selective Z-shim compensation. Magn Reson Med., 2007;57:396-404.

1. Du YP, Parker DL, Vessel enhancement filtering in magnetic resonance angiography, US05,644,646, (1997).
2. Du YP, Zhou XJ, Bernstein MA, Maier JK, Correction of axial image signal fall off caused by Maxwell terms, US05,917,323, (1999).
3. Du YP, Zhou XJ, Bernstein MA, Maier JK, Correction of axial image signal fall off caused by Maxwell terms, US05,917,323, (1999).
4. Du YP, Zhou XJ, Bernstein MA, Maier JK, Correction of artifacts caused by Maxwell terms in MR echo-planar images, US05,869,965, (1999).
5. Zhou XJ, Du YP, Bernstein MA, Reynolds HG, Maier JK, Polzin JA, Correction of artifacts caused by Maxwell terms in slice offset echo planar imaging US06,064,205, US05,923,168, (2000).
6. Du YP, Respiratory gating method for MR imaging, US06,144,874, (2000).
7. Du YP, King KF, System for operating MR gradient coil to produce pulses of different amplitudes and slew-rates, US06,198,289, (2001).
8. Du YP, Multi-slab multi-window cardiac MR imaging US06,268,730, (2001).
9. Du YP, Foo TKF. Iterative method for reducing errors in navigator echo MR imaging, US06,275,720, (2001).
10. Du YP, McVeigh ER, Respiratory displacement and velocity measurement using navigator MRI echo signals, US06,292,684, (2001).
11. Du YP, Method for fast multi-slice mapping of myelin water fraction. US8,170,644 B2 (2012).
12. Du YP, Susceptibility weighted magnetic resonance imaging of venous vasculature. U.S. Patent No. 8,674,691 (2014)
13. Jin Z, Du YP: “A technique using compressed sensing in partial gradient-echo fast MRI”, Chinese Patent Office, ZL 2010 1 0272089.9
14. Du YP, Zhu A, Ye H：“A technique to reduce echo time in echo-planar imaging using center-out scheme”, Chinese Patent Office, ZL 2012 1 0399111.5