Yang Lab
The mission of the Yang Lab is to develop advanced imaging solutions for pathological activities in the heart and noninvasively detect, diagnose and monitor cardiovascular diseases. The team has developed cutting-edge MRI technologies, which include a needleless method for myocardial ischemia detection named cardiac fMRI (cfMRI). cfMRI utilizes oxygenation-sensitive MRI signal and controlled coronary artery stimulations to detect impaired coronary artery function without ionizing radiation, exogenous contrast agents and pharmacological stress agents. The needleless approach provides millions of patients with potential myocardial ischemic diseases a minimum risk solution for examining their coronary circulation without the potential harm from the standard clinical exams.
The Yang Lab is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health.
The Yang Laboratory is affiliated with the Cedars-Sinai Biomedical Imaging Research Institute and the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
Personal Statement
Hsin-Jung Yang, PhD, is an assistant professor of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai and a faculty member of the Imaging Core of the Biomedical Imaging Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai. He has dedicated his career to developing medical imaging technologies for more efficient and accurate clinical decision-making. He specializes in imaging physics, fast imaging methodologies and machine-learning algorithms. His work has been translated into clinics worldwide.
Hsin-Jung Yang, PhD
Breakthrough Research Areas
- Cardiac fMRI
- Cardiac energetic imaging
- High-order MR field correction
Collaborations
Meet Our Team
Learn more about the scientists, faculty members, investigators and other healthcare professionals of the Yang Laboratory.
Publications
Yang HJ, Dey D, Sykes J, Butler J, Biernaski H, Kovacs M, Bi X, Sharif B, Cokic I, Tang R, et al.
Radiology. 2020 Apr;295(1):82-93. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2020191456. Epub 2020 Feb 25.
Yang HJ, Oksuz I, Dey D, Sykes J, Klein M, Butler J, Kovacs MS, Sobczyk O, Cokic I, Slomka PJ, et al.
Sci Transl Med. 2019 May 29;11(494):eaat4407.
Yang HJ, Dey D, Sykes J, Klein M, Butler J, Kovacs MS, Sobczyk O, Sharif B, Bi X, Kali A, et al.
J Nucl Med. 2017 Jun;58(6):953-960. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.116.185991.
Liu T, Howarth AG, Chen Y, Nair AR, Yang HJ, Ren D, Tang R, Sykes J, Kovacs MS, Dey D, Slomka P, et al.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Jan 4;79(1):35-48. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.10.034.