Hanzhang Lu, PhD

Associate Professor
Endowed Title: TI Endowed Scholars Program in Advanced Imaging Technologies 2005-2009
TI Scholar in Advanced Imaging Technologies 2005-2009
Advanced Imaging Research Center, Psychiatry, Radiology
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering
Molecular Biophysics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-645-2761
Office Fax: 214-645-2885

hanzhang.lu@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

01/2001-12/2001 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
06/2000-02/2004 Graduate Research Assistant, Division of MR Research, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
02/2004-12/2005 Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Radiology, New York University
12/2005-08/2010 Assistant Professor, Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern
12/2005-08/2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern
12/2005-08/2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern
09/2010-present Associate Professor with tenure, Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern
09/2010-present Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern
09/2010-present Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern        

Education

Graduate SchoolJohns Hopkins University (2004)

Research Interests

Cerebrovascular physiology
Diffusion MRI
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
MR physics and pulse sequence design
Perfusion MRI

Publications

Featured
Novel Approach to Measure Absolute Cerebral Blood Volume using Vascular-Space-Occupancy (VASO) Dependent MRI.

Lu, H., Law, M., Johnson, G., Ge, Y., van Zijl, P.C., and Helpern, J.A. , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2005; (54):1403-1411

Featured
Routine Clinical Brain MRI Sequences for Use at 3.0 Tesla.

Lu, H., Nagae-Poetscher, L.M., Golay, X., Lin D., Pomper M.G., and van Zijl, P.C. , Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging , 2005; (22):13-22

Featured
Sustained post-stimulus elevation in cerebral oxygen utilization following vascular recovery.

Lu, H., Golay, X., Pekar, J.J., and van Zijl, P.C. , Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism , 2004; (24):764-770

Featured
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based on Changes in Vascular Space Occupancy.

Lu, H., Golay, X., Pekar, J.J., and van Zijl, P.C. , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2003; (50):263-274

Retinotopic mapping in human visual cortex using Vascular-Space-Occupancy (VASO) dependent fMRI.

Lu, H., Basso, G., Serences, J.T., Yantis, S., Golay, X., and van Zijl, P.C. , NeuroReport , October 2005; (16):1635-1640

Routine Clinical Brain MRI Sequences for Use at 3.0 Tesla.

Lu, H., Nagae-Poetscher, L.M., Golay, X., Lin D., Pomper M.G., and van Zijl, P.C. , Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging , July 2005; (22):13-22

Novel Approach to Measure Absolute Cerebral Blood Volume using Vascular-Space-Occupancy (VASO) Dependent MRI.

Lu, H., Law, M., Johnson, G., Ge, Y., van Zijl, P.C., and Helpern, J.A. , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , December 2005; (54):1403-1411

Experimental Separation of Intra and Extravascular BOLD Effects using Multi-echo VASO and BOLD fMRI at 1.5T and 3.0T.

Lu, H., and van Zijl, P.C. , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , April 2005; (53):808-816

Honors/Awards

Alzheimer’s Association Award

(2006)

TI Endowed Scholar in Advanced Imaging Technologies

(2005)

Phi Beta Kappa

(2004)

Young Investigator Award

Gordon Research Conference on Brain Energy Metabolism and Blood Flow (2004)

Suraj Manrao Award

Experimental NMR Conference (2003)