Welcome to the PARK Lab.
Our lab focuses on:
The Davenport Lab focuses on quantitative methods for human brain imaging, primarily using MRI and Magnetoencephalography (MEG).
Photo gallery from the Liu (Jiaen) Lab.
Small vessel disease, diffusion MRI, microstructural and susceptibility Imaging
Magnetization transfer, 4D-flow MRI, non-Cartesian data acquisition
Navigator-based motion correction
Quantitative MRI, image motion correction
MRI sequence development
Image processing, signal denoising
Intracortical micro-stimulation (ICMS), neural interfaces, and dental implants
Neuro degenerative disease
Xu Li, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Xiaoping Wu, Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota
Anke Henning, Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Kan Ding, Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
David C. Zhu, Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Rong Zhang, Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Frank Yu, Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Peter Sguigna, Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Joseph (An Thanh) Vu, Center of intelligent imaging, UC San Franscisco
Kristen Kennedy, Department of Psychology, UT Dallas
Karen Rodrigue, Department of Psychology, UT Dallas
Erin Beck, Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jie Deng, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Jeff Duyn, Advanced MRI section, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Snehal Mazumder, Undergraduate Researcher from UT Dallas
Carlos D. Perez Ortiz, Undergraduate Researcher from UT Dallas
Wenkai Liang, Graduate student at UTSW
Krishan Bansal, Undergraduate Researcher from UT Dallas
Sanjay Srikanth, Undergraduate Researcher from UT Dallas
Joshua John, Undergraduate Researcher from UT Dallas, current position: Technical Solutions Engineer at Epic, Madison, WI, USA
Woowon Lee Ph.D., Postdoc Researcher, current position: Senior Scientist at SK Group, Republic of Korea
Daniel Gendin Ph.D., Postdoc Researcher, current position: Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Meet the people of the Liu (Jiaen) Lab.
Qu, S., de Zwart, J.A., van Gelderen, P., ... Liu, J... "Advancing whole-brain BOLD fMRI in humans at 10.5 Tesla with motion-robust 3D EPI and RF parallel transmission: initial experience". Proceedings of 33rd Annual Conference of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2025
Qu, S., de Zwart, J.A., van Gelderen, P., ... Liu, J. "Advancing mesoscale whole brain T2*-weighted MRI in humans at 10.5 T using motion-robust multi-echo 3D EPI and RF parallel transmission". Proceedings of 33rd Annual Conference of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2025
Qu, S., de Zwart, J.A., van Gelderen, P., ... Liu, J. "Mesoscale T2*-weighted MRI of the human cerebellum at 10.5 Tesla: initial experience". Proceedings of 33rd Annual Conference of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2025
Zheng, G., Huang, Y., Liu, J. "Increased susceptibility in the anterior hippocampal dentate gyrus and CA4 region of patients with mild cognitive impairment". Proceedings of 33rd Annual Conference of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2025
Huang, Y., Zheng, G., Liu, J. "Observing Age-related Susceptibility Change between Cortical Gray Matter and Superficial White Matter". Proceedings of 33rd Annual Conference of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2025
Liu, J., van Gelderen, P., de Zwart, J.A., Duyn, J.H., Grant, A., Edward, A., Waks, M., Lagore, R.,Delabarre, L., Sadeghi Tarakameh, A., Eryaman, Y., Adriany, G., Ugurbil, K., Wu, X. “Motion-robust high-resolution multi-echo 3D gradient echo imaging of the human brain at 10.5 tesla using 80 receive channels”. Proceedings of 32nd Annual Conference of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2024
Publications from the Liu (Jiaen) Lab.
The glymphatic system, including cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), plays a vital role in clearing metabolic waste from the brain tissue. While disruption of the CSF exchange with brain tissue has been linked to cognitive decline, probing such exchange in humans remains challenging and largely unstudied. By developing an ingenious MR pulse sequence optimized for measuring the CSF-tissue exchange, our lab is actively discovering new findings in young and elder populations, including age-related biomarkers of declining glymphatic clearance. (Kim et al., NeuroImage 2025)
We develop MRI data acquisition and reconstruction strategies for the purpose of using MRI as a noninvasive in vivo histology tool. With higher field strength, signal and contrast level, mesoscale resolution on the order of 0.5 mm brings us unprecedented details about tissue structure. This holds promises to detect subtle lesions in the early stage of diseases which are not available in the standard clinical practice.
We are dedicated to the clinical translation of the most advanced imaging technologies.
Research from the Liu (Jiaen) Lab.
BiMIR aims at pushing the state of the art in clinical diagnosis and benefit to patients by developing novel medical imaging technologies and enhancing our understanding of the underlying tissue health conditions.
Dr. Waugh is a physician-scientist whose research focuses on the structural brain abnormalities that lead to dystonia, a movement disorder that leads muscles to twist and contort into painful positions.
The goal of our research is to identify key immune checkpoints of gastrointestinal disorders that could be targeted for therapeutic intervention and drug development.
