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

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
(Finalist for the 2025 Young Investigator Award)

Qiu, 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

May 14, 2025

Oral at Interventional Hardware & Technical Developments, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA.

Interventional navigation at a portable MRI system: A pilot study

May 07, 2024

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.html

Diffusion tensor imaging in portable low-field MRI

May 07, 2024

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.html

Spatiotemporal encoding MRI at a portable low field system without parallel imaging
Oral Presentation (2024 ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award)

May 06, 2024

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.html

Ultrafast multi-parametric quantitative MRI using Multi-TR echo-planar time-resolved imaging (Multi-TR-EPTI)

June 06, 2023

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.html

A SNR and contrast comparison study at 0.11T, 0.25T, 1.5T and 3T MRI systems

June 05, 2023

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

Finalist for the 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.