Yi Wang, PhD
Faculty Distinguished Professor in Radiology and Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Address:
416 E 55th Street
Floor B-1
New York, NY 10022
Phone:
(212) 752-3936
yiwang [at] med [dot] cornell [dot] EDU
Education:
1994 – Ph.D. in Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
1989 – M.S. in Theoretical Physics, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA
1986 – B.S. in Nuclear Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Positions:
2005-present Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2005-present Zhijiang Lecture Professor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
2004-present Faculty Distinguished Professorship, Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University,
New York, NY
2002-2004 Associate Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
New York, NY
2000-2002 Associate Professor of Physics in Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University,
New York, NY
1997-2000 Assistant Professor of Physics in Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University,
1996-1997 Assistant Professor of Radiology, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN
1994-1996 Research Fellow, MRI Lab, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Select Research Publications in Chronological Order:
1. Wang Y, Riederer SJ, Ehman RL. Respiratory motion of the heart: kinematics and the implications for the spatial resolution in coronary imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 1995;33:713-9.
2. Wang Y, Rossman PJ, Grimm RC, Riederer SJ, Ehman RL. Navigator-echo-base real-time respiratory gating and triggering for reduction of respiration effects in three-dimensional coronary MR imaging. Radiology 1996;198:55-60.
3. Wang Y, Johnston DL, Breen JF, Huston III J, Jack CR, Julsrud PR, Riederer SJ, Ehman RL, Dynamic MR digital subtraction angiography using contrast enhancement, fast data acquisition, and complex subtraction, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 36, 551-556, 1996.
4. Wang Y, Lee HM, Khilnani NM, Trost DW, Jagust M, Bush HL, Sos TA, Sostman HD, Bolus chase MR digital subtraction angiography of the entire lower extremity in one minute, Radiology, 207, 263-269, 1998.
5. Wang Y. Real-time navigator approach to motion problems in coronary MRA. IEEE Computer Society Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society conference on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, 44-52, 2001.
6. Wang Y, Truong TN, Yen C, Bilecen D, Watts R, Trost DW, Prince MR. Quantitative evaluation of susceptibility and shielding effects of nitinol, platinum, cobalt and stainless steel stents. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 49:972-976, 2003.
7. Nguyen TD, Nuval A, Mulukutla S, Wang Y. Direct monitoring of coronary artery motion with cardiac fat navigator echoes. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2003;50:235-41.
8. Kolmogorov VN, Watts R, Prince MR, Zabih R, Wang Y. An efficient real-time navigator algorithm: simultaneous multiple volume (SMV) acquisition, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 21:969-975, 2003.
9. Brown R, Mareyam A, Reid E, Wang Y. Improved RF Coil Geometry for Lower Extremity Imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 51:635-639, 2004.
10. Zhu H, Buck DG, Zhang Z, Zhang H, Wang P, Stenger VA, Prince MR, Wang Y. High temporal and spatial resolution 4D MRA using spiral data sampling and sliding window reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 52:14-18, 2004.
11. Kolmogorov V, Nguyen TD, Nuval A, Spincemaille P, Prince MR, Zabih R, Wang Y. A multi-processor scheduling implementation of simultaneous multiple volume (SMV) navigator method. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 52:362-367, 2004
12. Qian Y, Zhang Z, Stenger VA, Wang Y. Self calibrated spiral SENSE. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 52:688-692, 2004.
13. Spincemaille P, Nguyen TD, Wang Y. View ordering for magnetization prepared steady state free precession acquisition: application in contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 52:461-466, 2004.
14. Zhang HL, Khilnani NM, Prince MR, Winchester PA, Golia P, Veit P, Watts R, Wang Y. Diagnostic accuracy of time-resolved 2D projection MR angiography for symptomatic infrapopliteal arterial occlusive disease. AJR, 183(4):1041-7, 2004
15. Trost DW, Zhang HL, Prince MR, Winchester PA, Wang Y, Watts R, Sos TA. Three-dimensional MR angiography in imaging platinum alloy stents, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 20(6):975-80, 2004.
16. Raj A, Zhang H, Prince MR, Wang Y, Zabih R. An Automatic Algorithm for Correcting Motion Artifacts In Time-Resolved 2D MR Angiography Using Convex Projections. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 55(3):649-58, 2006
17. Cheng L, Gao Y, Guaricci AI, Mulukutla S, Sun W, Sheng F, Foo TK, Prince MR, Wang Y. Breath-hold 3D steady state free precession coronary MRA: compared to conventional x-ray coronary angiography. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 23(5):6669-673, 2006
18. Nguyen TD, Spincemaille P, Prince MR, Wang Y. Cardiac Fat Navigator Gated Steady State Free Precession 3D Magnetic Resonance Angiography of Coronary Arteries. Magnetic resonance in Medicine 2006;56:210-5.
19. Qian Y, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Boada F. Decomposed direct matrix inversion for fast non-Cartesian SENSE reconstructions. Magnetic resonance in Medicine 2006;56:356-63.
20. Kressler B, Spincemaille P, Nguyen TD, Prince MR, Wang Y. Reduction of reconstruction time for time-resolved spiral 3D contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography using parallel computing. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2006;56:704-8.
21. Raj A, Kressler B, Singh G, Zabih R, Wang Y. Statistical aspects of parallel imaging reconstruction. Proceedings of the 28th IEEE EMBS annual international conference, 377-380, 2006.
22. Singh G, Nguyen TD, Kressler B, Raj A, Zabih R, Wang Y. Improved Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Parallel Coronary Artery Magnetic Resonance Angiography using Graph Cuts based Bayesian Reconstruction. Proceedings of the 28th IEEE EMBS annual international conference, 703-706, 2006.
23. Spincemaille P, Zhao XH, Cheng L, Prince MR, Wang Yi. Motion artifact suppression in breath hold 3D contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography using ECG ordering. Proceedings of the 28th IEEE EMBS annual international conference, 739-742, 2006.
24. Nguyen TD, Spincemaille P, Lu ZR, Wang Y. Steady state free precession 3D magnetic resonance angiography with biodegradable intravascular (Gd-DTPA)-Cystamine Copolymers: initial experience in a swine model. Molecular Pharmaceutics 2006;3:558-65.
25. Raj A, Singh G, Zabih R, Kressler B., Wang Y, Schuff N, Weiner M. Bayesian parallel imaging with edge-preserving priors. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2007;57: 8-21.
26. Spincemaille P, Brown R, Qian Y, Wang Y. Optimal coil array design: the two-coil case. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2007;25:671-7.
27. Brown R, Mareyam A, Ersoy H, Mohajer K, Prince MR, Wang Yi. Design of a Birdcage Array for Lower Extremity Angiography. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2007;26(3):589-97.
28. Raj A, Wang Y, Zabih R. A maximal likelihood approach to parallel imaging with coil sensitivity noise. IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, 2007;26(8):1046-57.
29. Brown R, Wang Yi, Spincemaille P, Lee RF. Consideration on Noise Correlation Matrix for Multiple RF Coils Using First Principles of Statistical Physics. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007;58(2):218-24.
30. Kressler B, Spincemaille P, Nguyen TD, Cheng L, Zhao XH, Prince MR, Wang Y. Three Dimensional Cine Imaging Using Variable-Density Spiral Trajectories and SSFP with Application to Coronary Artery Angiography. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007;58(3):535-43.
31. Wang Yi, Nguyen TD, Spincemaille P, Cham M, Prince M, Weinsaft J. Noninvasive functional imaging of the heart using MRI: opportunities and challenges. IEEE proceedings of noninvasive functional source imaging of the brain an heart and the international conference on functional biomedical imaging, NFSI-ICFBI: 185-189, 2007.
32. Chang S, Cham MD, Hu S, Wang Yi. 3T Navigator Parallel Imaging Coronary MRA: Targeted Volume versus Whole Heart Acquisitions, AJR, 191(1):38-42, 2008.
33. Nguyen TD, Spincemaille P, Weinsaft JW, Ho BY, Cham MD, Prince MR, Wang Yi. A fast navigator-gated 3D sequence for delayed enhancement MRI of the myocardium: comparison with breath-hold 2D imaging. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 27(4):802-808, 2008.
34. Codella N, Weinsaft JW, Cham MD, Janik M, Prince MR, Wang Yi. Automated Soft Segmentation of the Left Ventricle using Myocardial Effusing Threshold Reduction and Intravoxel Computation (LV-METRIC). Radiology, 2008 Sep;248(3):1004-12..
35. Spincemaille P, Nguyen TD, Prince MR, Wang Yi. Kalman filtering for on-line motion detection. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 60(1):158-168, 2008
Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
2R01HL60879 Wang (PI)
NIH/NHLBI 9/1/2004-8/31/2008
MR digital subtraction angiography of the lower extremity
The overall objective of this research is to improve resolution and speed of peripheral MRA for accurate diagnosis of small distal arteries.
Role: PI
R01HL62994 Wang (PI)
NIH/NHLBI 7/1/2006-6/31/2010
Development of navigator coronary MRI
The overall objective of this research is to develop navigator and rf coils to reduce motion artifacts and improve signal-to-noise ratio for coronary MRA
Role: PI
T35EB006732 Wang (PI)
NIH/NIBIB 9/1/2006-8/31/2011
Clinical summer immersion for biomedical engineering PhD students
The objective of this training project is to provide substantial clinical exposure for biomedical engineering students through a short-term intensive summer immersion program.
Role: PI
Research Grant Weinsaft (PI)
Doris Duke Foundation 9/1/2006-8/30/2009
DE-MRI Tissue Specific Detection of Post MI Thrombi
The objective of this research is to perform a cross-sectional evaluation of the prevalence and structural correlates of MRI-diagnosed left ventricle thrombi post ST elevated myocardial infarction.
Role: co-investigator
R01HL64647 Wang (PI)
NIH/NHLBI 4/1/2008-3/31/2012
Free breathing cardiac MRI sequences
The overall objective of this research is to develop motion compensated free breathing cardiac MRI sequences to overcome limitations associated with current breath hold cardiac MRI.
Role: PI
S10RR025145 Wang (PI)
NIH/NHLBI 7/1/2008-6/30/2009 (pending)
3T MR scanner for imaging from mouse to human
This is an high end instrumentation grant for installing a 3T MRI scanner at Cornell University Ithaca main campus.
Role: PI
R01EB009364 Wang (PI)
NIH/NIBIB submitted
Quantitative mapping of magnetic markers in molecular MRI
The overall objective of this research is to develop a magnetic source MRI technique based on inverting magnetic field to magnetization source and apply this magnetic source MRI for quantification of magnetic markers in molecular MRI.
Role: PI