Changho Choi, PhD

Associate Professor
Advanced Imaging Research Center, Radiology
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering

Contact Information

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

Office Phone: 214-645-2805
Office Fax: 214-645-2885

changho.choi@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Waterloo, Physics (1996)
Graduate SchoolKorea University (1989)
UndergraduateKorea University (1987)

Research Interests

1H and 13C MRS
Application of MRS to neurodegenerative and cancer diseases
Density matrix simulation
RF pulse and coil design

Publications

Featured
T2 measurement of J-coupled metabolites in the human brain in vivo at 3T

Ganji SK, Banerjee A, Patel AM, Zhao YD, Dimitrov IE, Browning JD, Brown ES, Maher EA, Choi C , NMR in Biomedicine , ; ((in press))

Featured
Measurement of glycine in the human brain in vivo by 1H-MRS at 3T: Application in brain tumors

Choi C, Ganji SK, DeBerardinis RJ, Dimitrov IE, Pascual JM, Bachoo R, Mickey BE, Malloy CR, Maher EA , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , ; ((in press))

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Noninvasive detection of 2-hydroxyglutarate by magnetic resonance spectroscopy in patients with IDH-mutated gliomas

Choi C, Ganji SK, DeBerardinis RJ, Hatanpaa KJ, Rakheja D, Kovacs Z, Yang XL, Mashimo T, Raisanen JM, Marin-Valencia I, Pascual JM, Madden CJ, Mickey BE, Malloy CM, Bachoo R, Maher EA , Nature Medicine , ; ((accepted))

Measurement of N-acetylaspartylglutamate in the human frontal brain by 1H-MRS at 7T

Choi C, Ghose S, Uh J, Patel A, Dimitrov I, Lu H, Douglas D, Ganji S , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , November 2010; (64 (5)):1247-1251

Improvement of resolution for brain coupled metabolites by optimized 1H-MRS at 7T

Choi C, Dimitrov IE, Douglas D, Patel A, Kaiser LG, Amezcua CA, Maher EA , NMR in Biomedicine , November 2010; (23 (9)):1044-1052

Measurement of glycine in human prefrontal brain by point-resolved spectroscopy at 7.0 T in vivo

Choi C, Douglas D, Hawesa H, Jindal A, Storey C, Dimitrov I , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , November 2009; (62 (5)):1305?1310

Brain gamma-aminobutyric acid measurements by proton double quantum filtering with selective J rewinding

Choi C, Coupland NJ, Hanstock CC, Ogilvie CJ, Higgins ACM, Gheorghiu D, Allen PS , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , August 2005; (54 (2)):272-279

Measurement of GABA and contaminants in grey and white matter in human brain in vivo

Choi C, Bhardwaj PP, Kalra S, Casault CA, Yasmin US, Allen PS, Coupland NJ , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2007; (58):27-33

T2 measurement and quantification of glutamate in human brain in vivo

Choi C, Coupland NJ, Bhardwaj PP, Kalra S, Casault CA, Reid K, Allen PS , Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2006; (56):971-977

Observation of CH3 tunneling manifold by level-crossing NMR

Choi C, Pintar MM , Physical Review Letters , 1996; (76):527-530