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Weiliang Du, Ph.D.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Instructor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Office Address

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Unit Number: 94
Houston, TX 77030
Room Number: Y2.5613
Phone: (713) 745-7054
Fax: (713) 563-6895

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

2003 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, PHD, Medical Physics
1997 Beijing University, Beijing, China, MS, Technical Physics
1994 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, BS, Applied Physics

Board Certifications

2008 American Board of Radiology

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Du W, Yang JN. A robust Hough transform algorithm for determining the radiation field centers of circular and rectangular fields with subpixel accuracy. Phys Med Biol 54:555-567, 2/2009.
2. Wang X, Du W, Smith S, Stovall M, Buchholz T, Salehpour M. The radiation exposure from portal images during the course of breast radiotherapy. Am J Clin Oncol 31(4):345-351, 8/2008.
3. Du W, Karczmar GS, Uftring SJ, Du YP. Anatomical and functional brain imaging using high-resolution echo-planar spectroscopic imaging at 1.5 Tesla. NMR Biomed 18:235-241, 2005.
4. Du W, Fan X, Foxley S, Zamora M, River JN, Culp RM, Karczmar GS. Comparison of high-resolution echo-planar spectroscopic imaging with conventional MR imaging of prostate tumors in mice. NMR Biomed 18:285-292, 2005.
5. Medved M, Newstead GM, Fan X, Du W, Du YP, MacEneaney PM, Culp RM, Kelcz F, Olopade OI, Zamora MA, Karczmar GS. Fourier components of inhomogeneously broadened water resonances in breast: a new source of MRI contrast. Magn Reson Med 52:193-196, 2004.
6. Du W, Du YP, Fan X, Zamora MA, Karczmar GS. Reduction of spectral ghost artifacts in high-resolution echo-planar spectroscopic imaging of water and fat resonances. Magn Reson Med 49:1113-1120, 2003.
7. Medved M, Du W, Zamora MA, Fan X, Olopade OI, MacEneaney PM, Newstead G, Karczmar GS. The effect of varying spectral resolution on the quality of high spectral and spatial resolution magnetic resonance images of the breast. J Magn Reson Imaging 18:442-448, 2003.
8. Du W, Du YP, Bick U, Fan X, MacEneaney PM, Zamora MA, Medved M, Karczmar GS. Breast MR imaging with high spectral and spatial resolutions: preliminary experience. Radiology 224(2):577-585, 2002. PMID: 12147859.
9. Du W, Karczmar GS, Pan X. Effects of constant frequency noise in magnetic resonance imaging with non-uniform k-space sampling. Med Phys 29:1832-1838, 2002.
10. Karczmar GS, Du W, Medved M, Bick U, MacEneany P, Du YP, Fan X, Zamora M, Lipton M. Spectrally inhomogeneous effects of contrast agents in breast lesion detected by high spectral and spatial resolution MRI. Acad Radiol 9:S352-354, 2002.
11. Fan X, Du W, MacEneaney PM, Zamora M, Karczmar GS. Structure of the water resonance in small voxels in rat brain detected with high spectral and spatial resolution MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 16:547-552, 2002.
12. Du W, Yang J, Luo D, Martel M. A simple method to quantify the coincidence between portal image graticules and radiation field centers or radiation isocenter. Med Phys. Submitted.

Last updated: 2/22/2010