David C. Zhu, Ph.D.

David C. Zhu, Ph.D.
358 Giltner Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI  48824
Phones: (517) 353-9432 (main office)
(517) 355-0120 ext. 345 (Radiology office)
email: zhuda@msu.edu

CURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Radiology  2005-present
MRI Physicist for the Cognitive Imaging Research Center
Faculty member of the Cognitive Science Program

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, December 1999
Dissertation: Magnetic Resonance Pulse Sequences and Analytical Techniques for Breast Cancer Detection and Cardiovascular Flow.

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, California State University, Sacramento, August 1996
Thesis: Odd-Number Hybrid Echo Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

B.S., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, California State University, Sacramento, May 1996.
 
B.A., Molecular & Cell Biology, emphasis: Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, May 1992

RESEARCH INTEREST

He has a strong interest in MR imaging technique development and functional MRI applications. He has over ten years of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research experience, especially in MRI physics and engineering. He developed his expertise in MRI during his graduate research and his subsequent work at GE Medical Systems. During his graduate research, he developed high-resolution echo planar imaging, arterial spin labeling and phase contrast pulse sequences, and associated analytical techniques for clinical applications. At GE Medical Systems, he worked on various MR methodology developments, including fast spin echo imaging and fast volumetric imaging. He also participated in the development of the new EXCITE MR system. While he was a research faculty at the University of Chicago, he continued his research in MR imaging techniques, specifically, spiral imaging for functional MRI (fMRI) applications, T1 mapping of the brain and the quantification of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics for the study of hydrocephalus. He also expanded his interest to fMRI applications. He is currently a faculty at Michigan State University. He is collaborating with clinical experts to develop MRI techniques to detect and characterize plaques at the carotid artery, and with psychologists to apply fMRI methods to study visual cognition, aging, music and language processing, and social cognition.

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