News
August 2024
– Snow Lin joined our lab as a PhD student! Welcome aboard! Snow has also been awarded a spot on the T32 imaging training fellowship. Congrats!!
– Yuran’s first-author paper, “3D MR fingerprinting for dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging of whole mouse brain,” has been published on Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Cheers!
July 2024
– Anbang passed his PhD candidacy exam! Congratulations!!
– Yuran presented at the Gordon Research Seminar and Conferences (GRS and GRC) In Vivo MRI in Andover, NH. She was also elected as one of the co-chairs for GRS 2026.
May 2024
– Yuran presented a power pitch at ISMRM 2024 in Singapore.
February 2024
– Yuran presented at the Bugher Foundation Collaborative Symposium at the International Stroke Conference in Phonix, AZ. She showcased the preliminary results of developing a 3D MR fingerprinting (MRF) method for CSF imaging in mouse for post-stroke edema studies.
November 2023
– Anbang Chen has joined our lab as a PhD student!! Welcome on board, Anbang!!
August 2023
– Yuran’s first-author paper “Transport pathways and kinetics of cerebrospinal fluid tracers in mouse brain observed by dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI“ has been published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!!
June 2023
ISMRM 2023 Updates
– Kihwan presented “The Effect of Long-term Exercise Training on Metabolic Responses in Obese Zucker Fatty Diabetic Rats using Phosphorous-31 MRS” as a 6-min talk and also as an AMPC selected 100 Abstracts poster.
– Yuran’s work on “The impact of infusion rate on Gd-DTPA transport in the glymphatic system in mouse brain” was presented as a 6-min talk, and her work on “Hierarchical clustering analysis reveals size-dependent transport pathways of cerebrospinal fluid tracer in mouse brain” as a digital poster.
May 2023
– Kihwan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. PhDone!!! Congratulations to Dr. Kim!!!
– Yuran is named this year’s Outstanding BME Student Biomedical Imaging by CWRU School Graduate Studies. Congrats and well deserved!!
April 2023
– Conifer has been selected as a SOURCE – STEM 2023 Summer Research Scholar and received $3,700 funding to develop ML-based approaches for skull-stripping and atlas co-registration for mouse brains. AND he has been awarded $1,000 from Sears think[box] Summer Student Project Fund to develop animal cradles for our new 9.4T system. What a wonderful summer it will be!!!
December 2022
– Yuran is awarded a 2-year predoctoral fellowship from American Heart Association to study glymphatic function changes in post-stroke brain. Congratulations!!!
September 2022
Undergraduate Research Updates:
– Rao is highlighted as Summer 2022 Research Scholar funded by CWRU Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE).
July 2022
GRC/GRS In Vivo MRI Updates:
– Dr. Yu and Yuran attended Gordon Research Conferences and Seminar in Vivo MRI (photo at GRC-organized hiking at Mt. Kearsarge).
– Yuran gave an oral presentation at Gordon Research Seminar In Vivo MRI.
Celebrating Kihwan’s wedding:
– Congratulations, Kihwan!! Have a wonderful honeymoon trip!
May 2022
ISMRM 2022 London Updates:
– Congratulations to Dr. Yu for becoming an ISMRM senior fellow!!!
– Kihwan gave an oral presentation on “Effect of Aging and Muscle Degeneration on Metabolic Responses to High-Intensity Muscle Contraction in Mice by Phosphorus-31 MRS“.
– Yuran’s talk on “Contrast Agent Transport in Mouse Glymphatic System Observed by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI” won 3rd place abstract award of Imaging Nuerofluids.
Graduation updates:
– Huge congratulations to our previous lab alumna Dr. Sherry Huang! Sherry spent her undergraduate years in our lab and continued her Ph.D. study at CWRU with Dr. Mark Griswold. 
– We also sent off our senior undergraduate Jessica Meng. Jessica will be pursuing her medical doctor degree at University of South Carolina. Congratulations!
March 2022
– Our R01 proposal in collaboration with Dr. Chris Flask to study the mouse glymphatic system with MR fingerprinting scored < 3%! Congratulations!!!
February 2022
– Congratulations to Kihwan on successfully defending his R21 proposal!
December 2021
– Yuning’s “3D High-Resolution T1 and T2 Mapping of Whole Macaque Brain at 9.4 T Using Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting” is accepted to Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
October 2021
– Yuning starts her post-doc at Shanghai Tech University, advised by Dr. Dinggang Shen. Can’t wait to see more amazing works from Yuning!
September 2021
– Kihwan and Yuran present at the Ohio Physiology Society’s 35th annual conference.
– Yuran’s presentation on Whole-Brain T1 and T2 Mapping in Mouse by 3D Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting wins Dr. Cynthia Beall prize. (Mask was not required for presenters on stage)
August 2021
– Congratulations to Dr. Yuning Gu on successfully defending her thesis!!
June 2021
– Congratulations to Yuran on passing her Ph.D. qualifier exam!
May 2021
– Yuning’s presentation on High-Resolution, Whole-Brain T1 and T2 Mapping of Monkey Using 3D Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting at 9.4T wins magna cum laude award at ISMRM & SMRT 2021. 
– We sent off our undergraduate Xuetong Zhou to the MS program in BioEngineering at Stanford. 
November 2020
– Yuning’s “Dynamic Oxygen-17 MRI with Adaptive Temporal Resolution Using Golden-Means-Based 3D Radial Sampling” is accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
October 2020
– The “High-Resolution Dynamic 31P-MR Spectroscopic Imaging for Mapping Mitochondrial Function” has been selected as Featured Article on IEEE T-BME, Volume 67, Issue 10, October 2020
– Kihwan’s “Quantification of Creatine Kinase Reaction Rate in Mouse Hindlimb Using Phosphorous-31 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Fingerprinting” has been accepted for publication in NMR in Biomedicine
September 2020
– Dr. Yu has been appointed to the F. Alex Nason Professorship II by the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Case Western Reserve University
August 2020
– Yuning Gu’s poster presentation of 3D High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) of Monkey Brain at 9.4T wins the third place of Bruker MRI Award at ISMRM & SMRT 2020
July 2020
– Kihwan Kim’s presentation of Repeated Muscle Contraction increases Creatine Kinase Reaction Rate and Shortens Phosphocreatine Recovery in Mouse Skeletal Muscle at ISMRM & SMRT 2020 wins summa cum laude award
June 2020
– Kihwan Kim passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam with a perfect score.
May 2020
– Xuetong Zhou has been awarded a $3,000 summer research funding from CWRU’s Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) program.
April 2020
– Yuran Zhu, our undergraduate student, is continuing in our lab for her graduate studies.
March 2020
– We sent off our undergraduate student, Sarah Kim. Sarah is going to Duke University’s MS program in BME.
January 2020
– Kihwan Kim was accepted to ISMRM for a 10-minute oral presentation
– Yuning Gu was accepted to ISMRM for 3 digital posters
December 2019
– Sarah Kim and Yuran Zhu received Sears think[box] student project funding to design an MRI-compatible mouse cradle.