Nan-kuei Chen, PhD
Nan-kuei Chen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and a BS in Physics from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan. Trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School and Duke University Medical Center, his expertise is in MRI physics and technology development. His research focuses on advanced diffusion and functional MRI methods for translational and clinical applications, including cancer imaging. He is the inventor of the clinically deployed MUSE diffusion MRI technology.
Research Interests
1) Development of high-throughput and motion-immune clinical MRI for imaging challenging patient populations
2) Imaging of neuronal connectivity networks for studies of neurological diseases
3) High-fidelity and multi-contrast MRI guided intervention
4) Characterization and correction of MRI artifacts
5) Signal processing and algorithm development
6) MRI studies of human development