Multiband Fast Spin Echo on portable low-field systems
Lee, P. K., Qiu, Y., Wang, C., & Zhang, Z. (2025). "Multiband Fast Spin Echo on portable low-field systems." Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 1-16. doi: 10.1002/mrm.70036
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate Biomedical Enginerring, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2022-2027(expected)
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiyong Zhang
- Research Group Website: https://zzmri.sjtu.edu.cn/
- B.S. Biomedical Enginerring, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018-2022
CONTACT INFORMATION
Affiliations:
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China
- National Engineering Research Center of Advanced Magnetic Resonance Technologies for Diagnosis and Therapy (NERC-AMRT), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China
Email: saraqiu@sjtu.edu.cn
Mailing Address: Translational Medicine Building, 800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang, Shanghai, P. R. China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Ultrafast spatially encoded MRI techniques and their applications.
- New MRI sequence and pulse design in portable low-field MRI systems.
- Function magnetic resonance imaging in low-field MRI.
Journal Publications
A new approach for multislice spatiotemporal encoding MRI in a portable low‐field system
Qiu, Y., Chen, S., Solomon, E., et al. (2025). "A new approach for multislice spatiotemporal encoding MRI in a portable low‐field system." Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 93(2), 709-717. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30300
Spatiotemporal encoding MRI in a portable low-field system
The 2025 Young Investigator Award WinnerQiu, Y., Dai, K., Zhong, S., Chen, S., Wang, C., Chen, H., Frydman, L., & Zhang, Z. (2024). "Spatiotemporal encoding MRI in a portable low-field system." Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 92(3), 1011-1021. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30104
Susceptibility-weighted imaging at high-performance 0.5 T magnetic resonance imaging system: Protocol considerations and experimental results
Qiu, Y., Bai, H., Chen, H., et al. (2022). "Susceptibility-weighted imaging at high-performance 0.5 T magnetic resonance imaging system: Protocol considerations and experimental results." Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 999240. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.999240
Conference Proceedings
Multi-Shot Multi-Echo xSPEN technique for permanent gradient portable low-field MRI systems
Oral Presentation (2025 ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award)Oral at Truly Low-Field MRI, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA.
Qiu Y., Lee P. K., Chen S., Dai K., Wang C., & Zhang Z., Multi-Shot Multi-Echo xSPEN technique for permanent gradient portable low-field MRI systems, the ISMRM Annual Meeting, 14 May, 2025
https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/25MPresentations/abstracts/0898_KkGEc7QW5.htmlSpatiotemporal Encoding MRI in a Portable Low-Field System
Oral Presentation (2025 ISMRM Young Investigator Award Winner)Oral at Young Investigator Awards: Oral Presentations, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA.
Qiu Y., Lee P. K., Dai K., Zhong S., Chen S., Wang C., Chen H., Frydman L., & Zhang Z., Spatiotemporal Encoding MRI in a Portable Low-Field System, the ISMRM Annual Meeting, 12 May, 2025
https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/25MPresentations/abstracts/0008_K3BS6BS2i.htmlInterventional navigation at a portable MRI system: A pilot study
Digital Poster at Interventional Hardware & Technical Developments, Singapore.
Qiu Y., Xu C., Wei X., Wang C., Chen H., & Zhang Z., Interventional Navigation At APortable MRI System: A Pilot Study, the ISMRM Annual Meeting, 04-09 May, Singapore, 2024
https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/24MPresentations/abstracts/2720.htmlDiffusion tensor imaging in portable low-field MRI
Digital Poster at Embrace the Flexibility: Low-Field Acquisition, Singapore.
Dai, K., Qiu, Y., Chen, S., Chen, H., Zhang, 2. Diffusion tensor imaging in portable low-field MRI; The ISMRM 2024 (Singapore), 04-09 May 2024
https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/24MPresentations/abstracts/2695.htmlSpatiotemporal encoding MRI at a portable low field system without parallel imaging
Oral Presentation (2024 ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award)Oral at Low-Field High-Quality MRI, Singapore.
Qiu Y., Dai K, Zhong S., Chen H., Lucio Frydman, & Zhang Z, Spatiotemporal Encoding MRI At A Portable Low Field System Without Parallel Imaging, the ISMRM Annual Meeting, 04-09 May, Singapore, 2024.
https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/24MPresentations/abstracts/0155.htmlUltrafast multi-parametric quantitative MRI using Multi-TR echo-planar time-resolved imaging (Multi-TR-EPTI)
Oral at Radiomics, Quantitative MRI & Miscellaneous Data Acquisition & Analysis , Toronto, ON, Canada.
Bai, H., Qiu, Y., Dai. K., Chen, H., and Zhang, Z., Ultrafast multi-parametric quantitative MRI, 32th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Canada, June 06, 2023
https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/23MPresentations/abstracts/0252.htmlA SNR and contrast comparison study at 0.11T, 0.25T, 1.5T and 3T MRI systems
Digital Poster at Low-Field & Point-of-Care/Portable MRI II , Toronto, ON, Canada.
Qiu, Y., Bai, H., Chen, H., Zhang, Z. A SNR and contrast comparison study at 0.11T, 0.25T, 1.5T and 3T MRI systems, 32th International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Canada, June 05, 2023 https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/23MPresentations/abstracts/1760.html
Scholarship and Awards
- Prince-Meaney Translational Science Award Winner for the ISMRM 2025 Young Investigator Award
- 2023-2024 Taozepu Scholarship
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University outstanding graduate of 2022 (2022.06)
- 2020 National College Students Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Shanghai area, first prize (2020)
Research Experience
- 2024.6-2025.3
Multi-Shot Multi-Echo xSPEN technique for permanent gradient portable low-field MRI systems- Designed a new MS-ME xSPEN technique, to improve SNR and contrast diversity.
- Applied it to portable MRI and systems with the constant gradient to resist the great field inhomogeneity and gradient nonlinearity.
- 2024.1-2024.6
New approach for multislice spatiotemporal encoding MRI in a portable low-field system- Multi-slice SPEN sequences design for a portable low-field MRI system operating at 110 mT
- Tried multi-band RF technique on SPEN to improve SNR.
- 2023.1-2023.11
Spatiotemporal encoding MRI at a portable low field system- SPEN sequences design for a portable low-field MRI system operating at 110 mT
- Approximately distortion-free SPEN acquisitions were highlighted compared to the EPI acquisitions with TOPUP correction. Robust 3D SPEN MRI and diffusion SPEN MRI further demonstrated the potential clinical values in the portable low field systems.
- 2022.10-2023.11
Comparison study between multi-field MRI- Comparison of SNR, quantification fitting and protocol optimization for low field-MRI.
- Enabled similar contrasts of the typical clinical images at different fields.
- 2022.1-2022.6
T2 shuffling at low-field MRI systems- Exploited the physical advantages of low and medium fields to design fast multi-contrast sequences and low-rank reconstruction methods.
- Made full use of physical characteristics of low-fields to achieve high-quality multi-contrast imaging.
- 2021.9-2022.1
Susceptibility-weighted imaging and protocol design at low-field MRI- Optimized the imaging protocol to select the suitable parameters such as the values of TE, TR and the flip angle of the RF pulse according to the signal simulations for low-field SWI.
- The SWI results at 0.5T demonstrated the capability to identify magnetic susceptibility differences between variable tissues, especially, the blood veins.