BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
NAME Du, Yiping, Ph.D.		POSITION TITLE Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology
EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE (if applicable)		YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China	B.S.		1982	Optical Engineering
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China	M.E.		1987	Optical Engineering
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah	M.S.		1991	Physics
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah	Ph.D.		1994	Physics

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Positions:

1994-1995                  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

1995-1997                  MR Applications Engineer, GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI

1997-1999                  MR Physicist, Applied Science Laboratory, GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI

1997-1999                  Visiting Scientist, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

2000-2002                  Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2002-present              Associate Professor of Psychiatry/Radiology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

2002-present              Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Honors:

1993                          Stauffer Award, the Association of University Radiologists

1997                          Genius of Invention Award, GE-Medical Systems

1998                          Patent Award, GE-Medical Systems

2000                          Young Investigator Award, American College of Cardiology, Anaheim, California

Nine (9) US patents in magnetic resonance imaging awarded.

Committees: 

University of Colorado HSC:

National Committees:

Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order):

1.      Du YP, Parker DL, Davis WL, Blatter DD, “Contrast-to-noise ratio measurements in 3D MR angiography”, Investigative Radiology 1993;28:1004-9, the recipient of the Stauffer Award.

2.      Du YP, Parker DL, Davis WL, Cao G, “Reduction of partial-volume artifacts using zero-filled interpolation in three-dimensional MR angiography”, JMRI, 1994;4:733-41.

3.      Du YP, Parker DL, Davis WL, “Vessel enhancement filtering in 3D MR angiography”, JMRI, 1995;5:151-7.

4.      Parker DL, Du YP, Davis WL, “The voxel sensitivity function in Fourier transform imaging: applications to magnetic resonance angiography”, Magn Reson Med, 1995;33:156-62.

5.      Cao G, Parker DL, Sherell DS, Du YP, “Abbreviated moment-compensated phase encoding”, Magn Reson Med, 1995;34:179-85.

6.        Du YP, Parker DL, Davis WL, Cao G, Buswell HR, Goodrich KC, “Experimental and theoretical studies of vessel contrast-to-noise ratio in intracranial time-of-flight MR angiography”, JMRI, 1996;6:99-108.

7.      Du YP, Parker DL, “Evaluation of gradient inhomogeneity in the optimal design of gradient coils”, Magn. Reson. Imaging, 1996;14:201-7.

8.      Goodrich KC, Blatter DD, Parker DL, Du YP, Meyer KJ, Bernstein M, “Ramped RF excitation and magnetization transfer applied to MOTSA in intracranial MR angiography”, Investigative Radiology, 1996;31:323-32.

9.      Parker DL, Parker DJ, Blatter DD, Du YP, Goodrich KC, “The effect of image resolution on vessel signal in high resolution MR angiography”, Magn Reson Med, 1996;6:632-41.

10.     Du YP, Parker DL, “Studies on the performance of circular and elliptical z-gradient coils using a simulated annealing algorithm”, Magn Reson Imaging, 1997;15:255-62.

11.     Du YP, Parker DL, “Vessel enhancement filtering in 3D MR angiograms using long range signal correlation”, JMRI, 1997;7:447-50.

12.     Zhou XJ, Du YP, Bernstein MA, Reynolds HG, Maier JK, and Polzin JA, “Concomitant magnetic field-induced artifacts in axial echo planar imaging”, Magn Reson Med, 1998;39:596-605.

13.     Du YP, Parker DL, “Optimal design of gradient coils in MR imaging: optimizing gradient performance vs. minimizing cost functions”, Magn Reson Med, 1998;40: 500-3.

14.      Reeder SB, Du YP, Lima JA, Bluemke DA, “Advanced cardiac MR imaging of ischemic heart disease”, Radiographics, 2001;21:1047-74.

15.     Du YP, McVeigh ER, Bluemke DA, Silber HA, Foo TKF, “A comparison of prospective and retrospective respiratory navigator gating in 3D MR coronary angiography”, Interntl J Cardiac Imaging, 2001;17:287-94.

16.     Silber HA, Bluemke DA, Ouyang P, Du YP,  Post WS, Lima JAC, "The Relationship between Vascular Wall Shear Stress and Flow-Mediated Dilation: Endothelial Function Assessed by Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography", J Am College Cardiology, 2001;38:1859-65.

17.     Du W, Du YP, Bick U, Fan X, MacEneany PM, Zamora MA, Medved M, Karczmar GS, “High Spectral and Spatial Resolution MR Imaging of Breast”, Radiology, 2002;224:577-85.

18.     Du YP, Zhou XJ, Bernstein MA, “Correction of Concomitant Magnetic Field-Induced Image Artifacts in non-axial echo-planar imaging”, Magn Reson Med, 2002;48:509-15.

19.     Karczmar GS, Du W, Medved M, Bick U, MacEneaney P, Du YP, Fan X, Zamora M, Lipton M.  "Spectrally inhomogeneous effects of contrast agents in breast lesions detected by high spectral and spatial resolution MRI", Academic Radiology, 2002;S2:S352-4.

20.     Du YP. Prospective Navigator Gating With A Dual Acceptance Window Technique To Reduce Respiratory Motion Artifacts In 3D MR Coronary Angiography. Int. J. Cardiac Imaging. 2003;19:157-62.

21.     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. 2003;49:1113-20.

22.      Du YP, Saranathan M, Foo TKF. An accurate, robust and computational efficient navigator algorithm. J. Cardiac MR. 2004;6:483-90.

23.      Medved M, Fan X, Du W, Du YP, MacEneaney P, Culp RM, Newstead G, Kelcz F, Olopade O, Zamora MA, Karczmar GS. MRI of the Fourier components of inhomogeneously broadened water resonances in breast: a new source of MRI contrast. Magn Reson Med. 2004;52:193-6.

24.     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 in Biomedicine, 2005;18:235-41.

25.     Beresford TP, Arciniegas DB, Alfers J, Clapp L, Martin B, Beresford HF, Du YP, Liu D, Shen D, Davatzikos C, Laudenslager ML. Hypercortisolism in alcohol dependence and its relation to hippocampal volume loss. J Stud Alcohol. 2006;67:861-7.

26.     Beresford TP, Arciniegas DB, Alfers J, Clapp L, Martin B, Du YP, Liu D, Shen D, Davatzikos C, Hippocampus Volume Loss Due to Chronic Heavy Drinking, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2006;30:1866-70.

27.     Du YP, Dalwani M, Wylie K, Claus E, Tregellas JR. Reducing Susceptibility Artifacts in fMRI Using Volume-Selective Z-Shim Compensation. Magn Reson Med. 2007;57:396-404.

28.     Tanabe J, Crowley T, Hutchison K, Miller D, Johnson G, Du YP, Zerbe G, Freedman R. Ventral striatal      blood flow is altered by acute nicotine but not withdrawal from nicotine. Neuropsychopharmacology. In press.

29.     Tregellas JR, Davalos DB, Rojas DC, Waldo MC, Gibson L, Wylie K, Du YP, Freedman R, Increased Hemodynamic Response in the Hippocampus, Thalamus and Prefrontal Cortex During Abnormal Sensory Gating in Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research, in press.