Positions
- Associate Professor
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Radiology and Psychiatry
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Houston, TX, US
Addresses
- Smith Medical Research Bldg (BCMS) (Office)
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Room: S104P
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-3175
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine
- 08/2010 - Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
- PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis
- 07/2007 - Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
- BS from Peking University
- 05/2000 - Beijing, China
Honors & Awards
- Research Scholar Award
- RSNA (05/2013)
- Young Investigator Award
- NARSAD (05/2014)
Professional Interests
- Imaging outcomes for low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) deep brain stimulation (DBS)
- Quantitative imaging assessment of iron deficiency without anemia in adolescents
Professional Statement
Dr. Junqian (Gordon) Xu received his PhD degree in physical chemistry, with a Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored predoctoral fellowship, from the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Lab (BMRL) at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007. He completed his National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) sponsored postdoctoral fellowship in neurology at Washington University School of Medicine. In 2010, Dr. Xu joined the WU-Minn consortium of the Human Connectome Project (HCP) at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), University of Minnesota to develop multiband echo-planar imaging (EPI) techniques for fast brain imaging. Dr. Xu joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2012 to establish a neuroimaging laboratory using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques and relocated his research laboratory to ºÚÁÏÉçÇø in 2019.
Websites
Selected Publications
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" Mol. Psychiatry. 2021 ;
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" Magn Reson Med. 2019 ;
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Projects
- Human Connectome Project
Memberships
- International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
- Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
Skills
- diffusion MRI, functional MRI, quantitative susceptibility mapping, single-voxel MEGA-PRESS
- spinal cord, optic nerve, habenula, basal ganglia
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