Biosketch
Dr. Liu is a staff scientist in Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and Molecular Biomedical Imaging Laboratory of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. His research focuses on: 1) myocardial tissue characterization in nonischemic and ischemic cardiomyopathy using non-invasive imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging, multidetector CT and PET; 2) evaluating imaging biomarkers for cardiovascular risk in large scale multicenter epidemiological studies. Dr. Liu earned his medical degree and completed radiology residence training at Shandong Medical University in China. Before joining NIH, he was a research scientist at New York University School of Medicine.
Selected Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Nacif MS, Turkbey EB, Gai N, Nazarian S, van der Geest RJ, Noureldin RA, Sibley CT, Ugander M, Liu S, Arai AE, Lima JA, Bluemke DA. Myocardial T1 mapping with MRI: Comparison of look-locker and MOLLI sequences. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 2011 PMID: 21954119
Gabbay V, Liebes L, Katz Y, Liu S, Mendoza S, Babb JS, Klein RG, Gonen O. The kynureninse path in adolescent depresssion:preliminary findings from a proton MR spectroscopy study. Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry. 2010;34:37-44. PMID:19778568
Prudent V, Kumar A, Liu S, Wiggins G, Malaspina D, Gonen O. Human hippocampal subfields in young adults at 7.0T: feasibility of imaging. Radiology 2010;254:900-906. PMID:20123900.
Kirov I, Liu S, Flesyher R, Fleysher L, Babb J, Herbert J, Gonen O. Brain metabolites proton T2 mapping at 3.0 T in relapsing-remitting multiples sclerosis. Radiology 2010;254:858-866. PMID:20177098.
Liu S, Fleysher R, Flesyher L, Joo C, Ratai EM, Gonzalez R, Gonen O. Metabolite B1 corrected T1 mapping in the healthy rhesus macaque brain at 3T. Magnet. Reson. Med. 2010;63:865-871. PMID:20373387.
Liu S, Bluemke DA. Multi-center epidemiological studies of atherosclerosis imaging. Top. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 2009;20:239-246. PMID: 20805734
Liu S, Gonen O, Fleysher R, Flesyher L, Babb JS, Soher BJ, Joo CG, Ratai EM, Gonzalez R. Metabolite proton T2 mapping in the healthy rhesus macaque brain at 3T. Magnet. Reson. Med. 2009;62:1292-1299. PMID: 19780178
Fleysher R, Flesyher L, Kirov I, Hess DA, Liu S, Gonen O. Retrospective correction for T1 weighting bias in T2 values obtained with various spectroscopic spin echo acquisition schemes. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2009;27:1410-1419. PMID: 19559555
Liu S, Bluemke DA. Can a simple fingertip temperature measurement predict a cardiac event?. Int. J Cardiovasc. Imaging. 2009;25:867-868. PMID: 19911305
Fleysher R, Flesyher L, Liu S, Gonen O. On the voxel size and magnetic field strength dependence of spectral resolution in magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2009;27:222-232. PMID: 18687553
Kirov I, Fleysher L, Flesyher R, Patil V, Liu S, Gonen O. The age dependence of regional proton metabolites T2 relaxation times in the human brain at 3T. Magnet. Reson. Med. 2008;60:790-795. PMID: 18816831
King KG, Glodzik-Sobanska L, Liu S, Babb JS, DeLeon MJ, Gonen O. Anteroposterior hippocampal metabolic heterogeneity: three dimensional multivoxel proton MR spectroscopic imaging – initial findings. Radiology 2008;249:242-250. PMID: 18695208
Fleysher L, Flesyher R, Liu S, Gonen O. Voxel shift and interpolation for hadamard encoded MR images. Magnet. Reson. Med. 2008;60:524-35. PMID: 18727037
Hövener J, Rigotti D, Amann M, Liu S, Babb JS, Bachert P, Gass A, Gonen O. Whole-Brain N acetylaspartate MR spectroscopic quantification performance comparison of metabolite versus lipid nulling. Am. J. Neuroradiol. 2008;29:1441-45. PMID: 18556356
Fleysher R, Flesyher L, Liu S, Gonen O. TRITONE: radio-frequency field insensitive T1 estimator for MRI at high magnetic fields. Magnet. Reson. Imaging 2008;26:781-789. PMID: 18501545
Liu S, Gonen O, Fleysher R, Flesyher L, Soher BJ, Pilkenton S, Ratai EM, Lentz M, Gonzalez R. Regional metabolite T2 in the rhesus macaque brain at 7T. Magnet. Reson. Med. 2008;59:1165-1169. PMID: 18429024
