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Jingfei Ma, Ph.D.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor, Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Research Interests

  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • fast imaging chemical shift imaging
  • image quality

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1991 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, PHD, Physics
1986 University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, MS, Physics
1983 Peking University, Beijing, China, BS, Physics

Board Certifications

2003 American Board of Radiology

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Le-Petross H, Kundra V, Szklaruk J, Wei W, Hortobagyi GN, Ma J. Fast three-dimensional dual echo dixon technique improves fat suppression in breast MRI. J Magnetic Resonance Imaging 31(4):889-894, 4/2010.
2. Ahmad M, Slavens ZW, Low R, Merkle E, Hwang KP, Vu A, Ma J. A method for automatic identification of water and fat images from a symmetrically-sampled dual-echo Dixon technique. Magn Reson Imaging 28(3):427-433, 2010.
3. Ma J, Costelloe CM, Madewell JE, Hortobagyi GN, Green MC,Cao G, Sun F, Kundra VF. Fast Dixon-based multi-sequence and multi-planner MRI for whole body detection of cancer metastases. J Magn Reson Imaging 29:1154-1162, 2009.
4. Ma J, Jackson EF, Kumar AJ, Ginsberg LE. Improving fat-suppressed T2-weighted imaging of head and neck with two fast spin echo Dixon techniques: initial experiences. Am J Neuroradiology 30:42-45, 2009.
5. Bhosale P, Ma J, Choi H. Utility of the FIESTA pulse sequence in body oncologic imaging review. Am J Roentgenology Integrative Imaging: Review 192(S83-S93), 2009.
6. Ma J. A single-point Dixon technique for fat-suppressed fast 3D gradient-echo imaging with a flexible echo time. J Magn Reson Imaging 27(4):881-890, 4/2008. PMID: 18302201.
7. Ma J, Vu AT, Son JB, Choi H, Hazle JD. Fat-suppressed three-dimensional dual echo Dixon technique for contrast agent enhanced MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 23(1):36-41, 2006. PMID: 16315212.
8. Ma J. Breathhold water and fat imaging using a dual-echo two-point Dixon technique with an efficient and robust phase correction algorithm. Magn. Reson. Med. 52:415, 2004. PMID: 15282827.
9. Costelloe CM, Kundra VF, Ma J, Harrell RK, Bassett RL, Madewell JE. Fast Dixon-based whole body MRI of breast cancer metastases: Sensitivity and specificity in comparison with bone scan. Radiology. Submitted.

Last updated: 11/15/2010