Wu Liu, Ph.D

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Education

• Ph.D, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
• M.S., Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
• M.S., Physics, Nanjing University, China, 2000
• B.S., Physics, Nanjing University, China, 1997

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography

Doctoral Research Advisor:

James A. Zagzebski, Ph.D
Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation: 

In-vivo ultrasound scatterer size Imaging on Liver Tumors with a Clinical Scanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007.

Positions

• 06/2001-06/2006, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
• 08/2007-06/2010, Post-doctoral fellow, Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, CA, USA
• 06/2010-Present, Assistant Professor, Yale Yniversity School of Medicine, CT, USA

Awards and Honors

Memberships

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, (AAPM)

Publications @ UW

• W. Liu, J.A. Zagzebski, T.J. Hall, E.L. Madsen, T Varghese, M.A. Kliewer, S. Panda, S. Barnes, C. Lowery, "Acoustic backscatter and effective scatterer size estimates using a 2D CMUT transducer", Physics in Medicine and Biology, (Epub 2008 Jul 17), Vol. 53, No. 15, pp.4169-4183, 2008. (PMCID: PMC2758163). [Abstract]
• W. Liu J.A. Zagzebski, T Varghese, C.R. Dyer, U. Techavipoo, and T. J. Hall "Segmentation of elastographic images using a coarse-to-fine active contour model", Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 32, No.3, pp. 397-408, March 2006. (PMCID: PMC1764611). [Abstract]
• W. Liu, J.A. Zagzebski, T Varghese, A.L. Gerig, and T.J. Hall, "Spectral and scatterer size correlation during angular compounding: simulation and experimental studies", Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 230-244, October 2006. [Abstract]
• U. Techavipoo, T Varghese, J.A. Zagzebski, Q. Chen, and W. Liu, Semiautomated thermal lesion segmentation for three-dimensional elastographic imaging, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 655-664, 2004. [Abstract]
  
• W. Liu, U. Techavipoo, T Varghese, J.A. Zagzebski, Q.Chen, and F.T. Lee Jr., Elastographic versus x-ray CT imaging of radio frequency ablation coagulations: an in vitro study, Medical Physics. Vol. 31, No.6, pp. 1322-1332, 2004. [Abstract]
  

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