Dr. Chi Liu

Biography

Chi Liu received his Ph.D. in 2008 from Johns Hopkins University with an emphasis on quantitative SPECT/CT imaging. He completed his graduate work and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, specializing in oncological PET/CT studies focused on compensation algorithms for respiratory motion. In 2010, he joined Yale University as a faculty member and is board certified in Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation by the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine. His current research concentrates on quantitative cardiac and oncological PET/CT and SPECT/CT imaging, employing deep learning algorithms, reconstruction algorithms, data correction, and dynamic imaging. His translational clinical applications projects target early detection of chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity, multi-modality imaging for heart failure, and reducing respiratory motion variability when assessing therapy responses. Liu has developed imaging technologies in his lab that have been implemented in clinical PET and SPECT scanners. He was awarded the Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award in 2012 by IEEE Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences Council for his contributions to imaging physics in SPECT/CT and PET/CT with an emphasis on quantitative imaging and motion correction. He is also serving as President of the Physics, Instrumentation, and Data Sciences Council (PIDSC) at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) for the year 2022-2023.

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