Hao Huang, PhD

Assistant 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: 214-645-2881
Office Fax: 214-645-2885

hao.huang@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Assistant Professor, Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 08/07-present

Research Associate Faculty, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 11/05-07/07

Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 09/00-11/05

Research Assistant, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 09/99-09/00

Education

Graduate SchoolJohns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering (2005)
Graduate SchoolPeking University - China (1999)

Research Interests

Developmental brain connectivity
Diffusion MRI analysis and high resolution diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
Identification of clinical biomarkers with DTI

Publications

Featured
Distinctive disruption patterns of white matter tracts in Alzheimer's disease with full diffusion tensor characterization.

Huang H, Fan X, Weiner M, Martin-Cook K, Xiao G, Davis J, Devous M, Rosenberg R, Diaz-Arrastia R, Neurobiology of aging, 2011 Aug;

Featured
Anatomical characterization of human fetal brain development with diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging.

Huang H, Xue R, Zhang J, Ren T, Richards LJ, Yarowsky P, Miller MI, Mori S, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009 Apr; 29 (13)

Featured
White and gray matter development in human fetal, newborn and pediatric brains.

Huang H, Zhang J, Wakana S, Zhang W, Ren T, Richards LJ, Yarowsky P, Donohue P, Graham E, van Zijl PC, Mori S, NeuroImage, 2006 Oct; 33 (1)

Featured
DTI tractography based parcellation of white matter: application to the mid-sagittal morphology of corpus callosum.

Huang H, Zhang J, Jiang H, Wakana S, Poetscher L, Miller MI, van Zijl PC, Hillis AE, Wytik R, Mori S, NeuroImage, 2005 May; 26 (1)

White matter changes in healthy adolescents at familial risk for unipolar depression: a diffusion tensor imaging study.

Huang H, Fan X, Williamson DE, Rao U, Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011 Feb; 36 (3)

Structure of the fetal brain: what we are learning from diffusion tensor imaging.

Huang H, The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry, 2010 Dec; 16 (6)

Quantitative cortical mapping of fractional anisotropy in developing rat brains.

Huang H, Yamamoto A, Hossain MA, Younes L, Mori S, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2008 Feb; 28 (6)

Analysis of noise effects on DTI-based tractography using the brute-force and multi-ROI approach.

Huang H, Zhang J, van Zijl PC, Mori S, Magnetic resonance in medicine : official journal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine / Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2004 Sep; 52 (3)

Honors/Awards

Sigma Xi

(2006)

Best Thesis Award

(1999)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

IEEE

ISMRM

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