Title: Associate Professor 

Email: chao.zou@siat.ac.cn 

Research Area: Pulse sequence development and application, MR guided focused ultrasound 

Dr. Chao Zou is currently an associate professor in Paul C. Lauterbur research center for biomedical imaging. He received his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. degree in 2003, 2006 and 2009 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He joined Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) in 2009. His research interests include MR pulse sequence development and application, MR guided focused ultrasound. 

Publication: 

1.       Chuanli Cheng, Chao Zou, Changhong Liang, Xin Liu and Hairong Zheng. Fat-water separation using a region growing algorithm with self feeding phasor estimation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2016, DOI 10.1002/mrm.26297 (IF: 3.812) 

2.       Chao Zou, Changjun Tie, Min Pan, Qian Wan, Changhong Liang, Xin Liu*, Yiu-Cho Chung. Referenceless MR Thermometry - A Comparison of Five Methods. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2017, 62(1):1-16 

3.       Chao Zou, Huan Shen, Mengyue He, Changjun Tie, Yiu-Cho Chung*, Xin Liu*, A fast referenceless PRFS based MR thermometry by phase finite difference, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2013, 58(16): 5735 (IF: 2.811). 

4.       Lei, Hulong; Nan, Xiang; Wang, Zhiyong; Gao, Lin; Xie, Lisi; Zou, Chao; Wan, Qian; Pan, Di; Beauchamp, Norman; Yang, Xiaoming; Matula, Thomas; Qiu, Bensheng. Stem Cell Labeling with Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Using Focused Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Tracking. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2015, 15(4): 2605-2612(8). 

5.       Yan Tan, Lisi Xie, Zhiyong Wang , Na Zhang, Chao Zou, Zhi-ying Chen, Xin Liu, Jian Lu, Gang Liu, Hairong Zheng. Epsilon-caprolactone modified polyethylenimine for highly efficient antigen delivery and chemical exchange saturation transfer functional MR imaging. Biomaterials, 2015, 56: 219–228 

6.       Xie L, Tan Y, Wang Z, Liu H, Zhang N, Zou C, Liu X, Liu G, Lu J, Zheng H. ε-Caprolactone-Modified Polyethylenimine as Efficient Nanocarriers for siRNA Delivery in Vivo. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016, 43(8): 29261-29269.  

7.       Caiyun Shi, Guoxi Xie, Yibiao Song, Chao Zou, Xin Liu, Shanxue Zhou. Referenceless PRFS MR Thermometry Using Partial Separability Model. Applied Magnetic Resonance, 2014, 45(1): 93-108. 

8.       Yin Wu, Yan-Jie Zhu, Qiu-Yang Tang, Chao Zou, Wei Liu, Rui-Bin Dai, Xin Liu, Ed X. Wu, Leslie Ying, Dong Liang*, Accelerated MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging Using Distributed Compressed Sensing. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2014, 71(2): 763-772 (IF: 3.449). 

9.       Yin Wu, Chao Zou, Wei Liu, Weiqi Liao, Wei Yang, David A. Porter, Xin Liu, and Ed X. Wu, Effect of B-value in Revealing Postinfarct Myocardial Microstructural Remodeling Using MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2013, 31(6):847-56 (IF 1.991) 

10.   Wang F, Shi Y, Lu L, Liu L, Cai Y, Zheng HR, Liu X, Yan F, Zou C, Sun C, Shi J, Lu S, Chen Y.*, Targeted Delivery of GDNF through the Blood–Brain Barrier by MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7(12): e52925. 

11.   Wu Y, Zhang LJ, Zou C, Tse HF, Wu EX. Transmural Heterogeneity of Left Ventricular myocardium remodeling in postinfarct porcine model revealed by MR diffusion tensor imaging. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Jul. 2011, 34(1):43-49.