Jie Huang, Ph.D.

Jie Huang, Associate Professor, received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1994 from West Virginia University. He came to MSU Radiology in 1999 as a Research Associate and joined the faculty of MSU Radiology in 2002. He is also a training faculty member of the Neuroscience Program at MSU. His current research interests focus on five areas: (1) the applications of the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique in the basic neurosciences as well as clinical applications of the human brain such as visual masking, visual stress, migraine, and their prevention with precision spectral filters; (2) the development of novel fMRI techniques for the investigation of cognitive functions of the human brain such as language processing; (3) the development of water molecule diffusion-related novel MRI technique to simultaneously probe tissue structure and interface; (4) the application of dynamic contrast-enhanced and diffusion tensor MRI in improving the characterization of breast lesions; and (5) the development of new techniques required for conducting cardiac MRI of mice on a human clinical 3.0T scanner.