Wenjun Yang, Ph.D

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Education

• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, 2008
• M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, 2012
• Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography

Doctoral Research Advisor:

Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation:

Monitoring Microwave Ablation Treatments for Liver Tumors Using Ultrasound Elastography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Positions

• 05/2013-06/2017, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
• 07/2017-Present, Medical Physics Resident, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Awards and Honors

Memberships

• Student Member, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)
• Student Member, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• Student Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publications @ UW

• Wenjun Yang, T. Ziemlewicz, Tomy Varghese, M. Alexander, N. Rubert, A.N. Ingle, M. Lubner, J.L. Hinshaw, F.T. Lee Jr, J.A. Zagzebski, "Post-Procedure Evaluation of Microwave Ablations of Hepatocellular Carcinomas using Electrode Displacement Elastography", Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 2893-2902, doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.07.015, 2016. [Abstract]
• B. Peng, Y. Wang, Wenjun Yang, Tomy Varghese, J. Jiang, "Elastic Modulus Imaging Using Sector Ultrasound Data for Abdominal Applications: An Evaluation of Strategies and Feasibility", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 63, No. 9, pp. 1432-1440, doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2016.2589270, 2016. [Abstract]
• Wenjun Yang, A.N. Ingle, Tomy Varghese, "Comparison of Three Dimensional Strain Volume Reconstructions using SOUPR and Wobbler Based Acquisitions: A Phantom Study", Medical Physics, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp.1615-1626, 2016. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.49428, 2016. [Abstract]
• Wenjun Yang, Tomy Varghese, T. Ziemlewicz, M. Alexander, M. Lubner, J.L. Hinshaw, F.T. Lee Jr, “Comparison of electrode displacement elastography and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging for post-procedure ablation monitoring of liver tumors", Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology,Vol. , No. , pp. . doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2017.04.021, 2017. [Abstract]

Browse Dr. Yang's publications on PubMed