FEI DU, PHD
- Harvard title(s): Instructor in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
- McLean title(s): Assistant MR Physicist
- Email: fdu@mclean.harvard.edu
- Telephone: 617-855-3945
- Fax: 617-855-3711
- Office Address: Brain Imaging Center
- Degree(s):
- 1993 B.S. Chemistry, Sichuan Normal College, China
- 1996 M.S. Chemical physics, Jilin University, China
- 2000 Ph.D Electric physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
- Fellowship:
- 2008-2009 Assistant Research Professor, CMRR University of Minnesota
- 2003-2008 Research Associate, CMRR University of Minnesota
- 2000-2003 Post-doctor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Bio: Dr. Fei Du is a neuroimaging physicist at Brain Imaging Center with a background of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (MRI/MRS). His research focuses on high filed MRI/MRS technique development and application in psychotic disease and substance abuse disorder studies.
- Publications: (Selected):
- Qiang Xiong*, Fei Du*, Xiaohong Zhu, Pengyuan Zhang, Piradeep Suntharalingam, Wei Chen, and Jianyi (Jay) Zhang. ATP production rate via CK or ATP synthase in vivo: a novel superfast magnetization saturation transfer method (*equal contribution authors). Circ Res,. 2011;108(6):653-63
- Fei Du, Yi Zhang, Isabelle Iltis, Malgorzata Marjanska, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Pierre-Gilles Henry, and Wei Chen. In Vivo 1H MRS to Quantify Pentobarbital Anesthetic Effects on Cerebral Metabolism and Neuronal Activity in Rat Brian. Magn Reson Med, 2009, 62, 1385-1393
- Du F, Zhu XH, Zhang Y, Friedman M, Zhang N, Ugurbil K, Chen W. Tightly coupled brain activity and cerebral ATP metabolic rate. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2008, 105, 6409-6414.
- Iltis I, Marjanska M, Du F, Koski DM, Zhu XH, Ugurbil K, Chen W, Henry PG. 1H MRS in the rat brain under pentobarbital anesthesia: Accurate quantification of in vivo spectra in the presence of propylene glycol. Magn Reson Med 2008, 59, 631-635.
- Aranguren XL, McCue JD, Hendrickx B, Zhu XH, Du F, Chen E, Pelacho B, Penuelas I, Abizanda G, Uriz M, Frommer SA, Ross JJ, Schroeder BA, Seaborn MS, Adney JR, Hagenbrock J, Harris NH, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Nelson-Holte MH, Jiang Y, Billiau AD, Chen W, Prosper F, Verfaillie CM, Luttun A. Multipotent adult progenitor cells sustain function of ischemic limbs in mice. J Clin Invest. 2008, 118, 505-514.
- Fei Du, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Hongyan Qiao, Xiaoliang Zhang, Wei Chen. An In Vivo 31P Magnetization Transfer Approach for Noninvasively Determining Kinetic Network and Metabolic Fluxes of ATP Metabolism in Human Brain. Magn. Reson. Med. 2007, 57, 103-114.
- Fei Du, Wenjang Chu, Baolian Yang, J A Den Hollander and Thian C Ng, In vivo GABA detection with improved selectivity and sensitivity by localized double-quantum filter technique at 4.1T human system, Magn. Reson. Imag. 2004, 22, 103-108.