About

MRI research group at UNIST, Korea

We are young and interdisciplinary group of people spending most of our time in developing quantitative in-vivo biomedical imaging techniques in the pursuit of establishing relevant imaging biomarker for human diseases. Interdisciplinary nature of undergoing investigations keeps us busy and think outside the box everyday, focused on pushing the limit of state-of-art in-vivo imaging technologies and its in-vivo applications.

  • Magnet force be with you
  • Directional susceptibility imaging
  • SPION T1 Angiography
  • Ultrafast 3D spin echo imaging
  • Imaging analysis for structual analysis
  • Multispectral Magnetic Particle Imaging
  • UNIST

Research Interests: Magnetic Resonance Physics and Engineering, Quantitative in-vivo imaging biomarkers

Imaging tumor microenvironments
Quantitative imaging of microvasculature
Susceptibility contrast based MR structural imaging
Ultrafast acquisitions of dynamic and 3D MR
Implementation of color magnetic particle imaging

Funded Research Topics

Development of MR biomarkers for microvasculture studies(MISP), Imaging tumor using nano contrast agent (MISP, SRC), Multiscale imaging (UNIST)

Selected Research Publications @ UNIST

  • [1] Jung HS, Jin SH, Cho JH, Han SH, Lee DK, and Cho H* "UTE-ΔR2-ΔR2* combined MR whole brain angiogram using dual contrast superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles"
    NMR in Biomedicine (Cover Image) DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3514 (2016)
  • [2] Han SH, Cho JH, Jung HS, Suh JY, Kim JK, Kim YR, Cho GG and Cho H* "Robust MR assessment of cerebral blood volume and mean vessel diameter using SPION-enhanced ultrashort echo acquisition"
    NeuroImage DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.042 (2015)
  • [3] Han SH, Cho FH, Song YK, Paulsen J, Song YQ,Kim YR,Cho GG*and Cho H* "Ultrafast 3D spin echo acquisition improves Gadolinium-enhanced MRI signal contrast"
    Scientific Reports DOI:10.1038/srep05061 (2014)
  • [4] Jung HS, Park BW, Lee CK, Cho JH, Suh JY, Park JY,Kim YR,Kim JK,Cho GG* and Cho H* "Dual MRI T1 and T2* contrast with size-controlled iron oxide nanoparticles"
    Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine DOI:/10.1016/j.nano.2014.05.003 (2014)
  • [5] Min JS, Jung HS, Shin HH, Cho, G, Cho H*, Kang SB* "P22 viral capsids as high-relaxivity MRI T1 contrast conjugates via site-selective attachment of Gd (III)-chelating agents"
    Biomacromolecules DOI:10.1021/bm400461j (2013)