Fu-Nien Wang Ph.D

Experiences

8/2013~present Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University

8/2007~7/2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University

9/2006~ 6/2007 Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, R.O.C.

8/2003~ 7/2004 Visiting Research Fellow , MIT/HMS/MGH Anthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Education

9/2000~6/2005 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

9/1998~6/2000 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

9/1994~6/1998 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Research Interests

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) physics and applications in medicine
Human/Animal functional MRI with BOLD/perfusion contrast

Awards

2015 Teaching Excellence Award, College of Nuclear Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

2015 ISMRM Merit Award: Magna Cum Laude. (Won by advisee Zi-Min Lei)

2013 ISMRM Merit Award: Magna Cum Laude. (Won by advisee Shin-Lei Peng)

2013 1-year stipend for Graduate Student Study Abroad Program, National Science Council, Taiwan. (Won by advisee Shin-Lei Peng)

2012 Teaching Excellence Award, College of Nuclear Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

2012 1st Outstanding Research Award of the Department of Biomedical Engineering & Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. (Won by advisee Shin-Lei Peng)

2012 President Scholarship for Ph.D. student, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. (Won by advisee Sheng-Min Huang)

2011 Poster of Special Merit, Symposium on Polyscale Technologies for Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences. (Won by advisee Shin-Lei Peng)

2009-2013 ISMRM Educational Stipends. (Won by advisees, total 10 times)

Journal Publications

Liu TY, Huang TK, Yang SY, Hong YT, Huang SM, Wang FN, Chiang SF, Tsai SY, Lu WC, *Chiou TJ. “Identification of plant vacuolar transporters mediating phosphate storage. “ Nature Communications. 2016 Mar 31;7:11095, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11095. 

Huang SM, Wu YL, Peng SL, Peng HH, Huang TY, Ho KC, *Wang FN. “Inter-Strain Differences in Default Mode Network: A Resting State fMRI Study on Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat and Wistar Kyoto Rat.“ Scientific Reports. 2016 Feb;6:21697, DOI 10.1038/srep21697. 

Peng SL, Wang FN, Yang TC, Hsu JC, Wu YC, *Peng HH. “Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Evaluation of Wall Shear Stress in the Common Carotid Artery of a Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Model at 7T: Location-specific Change, Regional Distribution Along the Vascular Circumference, and Reproducibility Analysis.“ Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2015 Dec; Epub 2015 Dec 19.

Huang SM, Jan ML, Liang HC, Chang CH, Wu YC, Tsai SY, *Wang FN. “Investigation of Readout RF Pulse Impact on the Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Spectrum.“ Scientific Reports. 2015 Oct;5:15062, DOI 10.1038/Srep15062.

Peng SL, Su P, Wang FN, Cao Y, Zhang R, Lu H, *Liu P. “Optimization of Phase-Contrast MRI forthe Quantification of Whole-Brain CerebralBlood Flow.“ J Magn Reson Imaging. 2015 Oct;42(4):1126-33. Epub 2015 Feb 11.

Wang TH, Jian CH, Hsieh YK, Wang FN, *Wang CF, “Spatial Distributions of Inorganic Elements in Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) and Possible Relationships to Dietary Habits and Surrounding Environmental Pollutants.” Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2013 61(21);5009-5015.

Chang HC, Chuang TC, Lin YR, Wang FN, Huang TY, Chung HW, “Correction of geometric distortion in Propeller echo planar imaging using a modified reversed gradient approach”, Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2013 3(2):73-81.

*Wang FN, Peng SL, Lu CT, Peng HH, Yeh TC, “Water Signal Attenuation by D2O Infusion as a Novel Contrast Mechanism for 1H Perfusion MRI”, NMR in Biomedicine, 2013 26:692-8.

Peng SL, Chen CF, Liu HL, Lui CC, Huang YJ, Lee TH, Chang CC, *Wang FN, “Analysis of Parametric Histogram from Dynamic contrast-Enhanced MRI-Application in Evaluating Brain Tumor Response to Radiotherapy”, NMR in Biomedicine, 2013 26:443-50.

Yang YH, Huang TY*, Wang FN, Chuang TC, Chen NK, “Accelerating EPI Distortion Correction by Utilizing a Modern GPU-Based Parallel Computation”, Journal of Neuroimaging. 2013 23:202-6.

Peng HH, *Huang TY, Wang FN, Chung HW, “Flow gated radial phase-contrast imaging in the presence of weak flow.” International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 2013 29(1):131-40.

Lin FH, Nummenmaa A, Witzel T, Polimeni JR, Zeffiro TA, *Wang FN, Belliveau JW, “Physiological noise reduction using volumetric functional magnetic resonance inverse imaging”, Human Brain Mapping, 2012 33(12):2815-30.

*Lin FH, Witzel T, Schultz G, Gallichan D, Kuo WJ, *Wang FN, Hennig J, Zaitsev M, Belliveau JW, “Reconstruction of MRI Data Encoded by Multiple Nonbijective Curvilinear Magnetic Fields”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2012 68(4):1145-56.

Chang CH, *Wang FN. “Simulation of DESIRE effect for NMR microscopy”, Bopuxue Zazhi, 2010 27(3):396-408.

*Chen YI, Wang FN, Nelsen AJ, Xu H, Kim Y, Rosen BR, Kwong KK. “Electrical stimulation modulates the amphetamine-induced hemodynamic changes: an fMRI study to compare the effect of stimulating locations and frequencies on rat.”, Neuroscience Letters, 2008 444(2):117-21.

*Chen YI, Ren J, Wang FN, Xu H, Mandeville JB, Kim Y, Rosen BR, Jenkins BG, Hui KS, Kwong KK. “Inhibition of stimulated dopamine release and hemodynamic response in the brain through electrical stimulation of rat forepaw.”, Neuroscience Letters. 2008 431(3):231-5.

*Lin FH, Wang FN, Ahlfors SP, Hamalainen MS, Belliveau JW. “Parallel MRI reconstruction using variance partitioning regularization”, Magn Reson Med. 2007 58(4):735-744.

Chuang TC, Huang TY, Lin FH, Wang FN, *Chung HW, Chen CY, Kwong KK. “Propeller EPI with SENSE parallel imaging using a circularly symmetric phase array RF coil.” Magn Reson Med. 2006 56:1352-8.

Wang FN, *Huang TY, Chuang TC, Lin FH, Chen NK, Chung HW, Chen CY, Kwong KK. “Propeller EPI: an MR imaging technique suitable for diffusion tensor imaging at high field strength with reduced geometric distortions”, Magn Reson Med. 2005 54: 1232-40.

*Lin FH, Huang TY, Chen NK, Wang FN, Stufflebeam SM, Belliveau JW, Wald LL, Kwong KK "functional MRI using regularized parallel imaging acquisition" Mag. Reson. Med. 2005 54:343-53.

Huang TY, *Chung HW, Wang FN, Ko CW, Chen CY. “Fat and water separation in balanced steady-state free precession using the Dixon method.” Magn Reson Med. 2004 Feb;51(2) :243-7.

*Chung HW, Chung HJ, Wang FN. “Re: Sedivy et al. Short-term rhythmic proliferation of human breast cancer cell lines: surface effects and fractal growth patterns. J Pathol 2002; 197: 163-169.”, J Pathol. 2003 Dec;201(4):629-30.

Liu YJ, *Chung HW, Huang IJ, Wang FN, Chin SC, Lee CS, Chen CY. “A reinvestigation of maximal signal drop in dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging. ”, J Neuroimaging 2002 Oct;12(4):330-8.