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Review Paper: Z.-P. Liang, F. E. Boada, R. T. Constable, E. M. Haacke, P. C. Lauterbur, M. R. Smith, "Constrained reconstruction methods in MR imaging," Rev. Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 4, pp. 67-185, 1992.

Data Acquisition: C. Ma, D. Xu, K. F. King, Z.-P. Liang, "Reduced FOV excitation using second-order gradients and spatal-spectral RF pulses," Magn. Reson. Med, 2012 (in press). C. Ma, D. Xu, K. F. King, Z.-P. Liang, "Joint design of spoke trajectories and RF pulses for parallel excitation," Magn. Reson. Med, vol. 65, pp. 973-985, 2011. L. Ying, Z.-P. Liang, "Parallel MRI using phased array coils: Multichannel sampling theorem meets spin physics," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 90-98, 2010. D. Xu, K. F. King, Y. Zhu, G. C. McKinnon, Z.-P. Liang,"Designing multichannel, multidimensional, arbitrary flip angle RF pulses using an optimal control approach,"Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 59, pp. 547-560, 2008. D. Xu, K. F. King, Z.-P. Liang, "Variable slew-rate spiral design: theory and application to peak B1 amplitude reduction in 2D RF pulse design," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 58, pp. 835-842, 2007. D. Xu, K. F. King, Y. Zhu, G. C. McKinnon, Z.-P. Liang, "A non-iterative method to design large-tip-angle multidimensional spatially selective radiofrequency pulses for parallel transmission," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 58, pp. 326-334, 2007. X. Zhou, Z.-P. Liang, S. L. Gewalt, G. P. Cofer, P. C. Lauterbur, G. A. Johnson, "Fast spin-echo imaging with circular k-space sampling," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 39, pp. 23-27, 1998. Z.-P. Liang, D. C. Munson, "Partial Radon transforms," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 6, pp. 1467-1469, 1997. Z.-P. Liang, "Unification of the inverse Radon transform in odd and even dimensions," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 13, pp. 757-758, 1995. X. Zhou, Z.-P. Liang, G. P. Cofer, C. F. Beaulieu, A. Suddarth, G. A. Johnson, "Reduction of ringing and blurring artifacts with fast spin-echo images," Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 3, pp. 803-807, 1993.

Imaging Reconstruction: B. Zhao, J. P. Haldar, A. G. Christodoulou, Z.-P. Liang, "Image reconstruction from highly undersampled (k,t)-space data with joint partial separability and sparsity constraints," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 31, pp. 1809-1820, 2012. J. P. Haldar, D. Hernando, Z.-P. Liang, "Compressed-Sensing MRI with Random Encoding," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 30, pp. 893-903, 2011. D. Hernando, Z.-P. Liang, P. Kellman, "Chemical shift-based water/fat separation: A comparison of signal models," Magn. Reson. Med., 64:811-822, 2010. D. Hernando, P. Kellman, J. P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang, "Robust water/fat separation in the presence of large field inhomogeneities using a graph-cut algorithm," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 63, pp. 79-90, 2010. D. Hernando, J. P. Haldar, B. P. Sutton, J. Ma, P. Kellman, Z.-P. Liang, "Joint estimation of water/fat images and field inhomogeneity map," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 59, pp. 571-580, 2008. J. P. Haldar, D. Hernando, S.-K. Song, Z.-P. Liang, "Anatomically constrained reconstruction from noisy data," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 58, pp. 810-818, 2008. S. S. Stone, J. P. Haldar, S. C. Tsao, W.-M. W. Hwu, Z.-P. Liang, B. P. Sutton, "Accelerating advanced MRI reconstructions on GPUs," J. Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 68, pp. 1307-1318, 2008. M. Jacob, X. Zhu, A. Ebel, N. Schuff, Z.-P. Liang, "Improved model-based magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 26, pp. 1305-1318, 2007. D. Xu, K. F. King, Z.-P. Liang, "Improving k-t SENSE by adaptive regularization," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 57, pp. 918-930. 2007. L. Yuan, L. Ying, D. Xu, Z.-P. Liang, "Truncation effects in SENSE reconstruction," Magn. Reson. Imaging, 24(10):1311-1318, 2006. D. Huo, D. Xu, Z.-P. Liang, D. Wilson, "Application of perceptual difference model on regularization techniques of parallel MR imaging," Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 24, pp. 123-132, 2006. Z.-P. Liang, B. Madore, G. H. Glover, N. J. Pelc, "Fast algorithms for GS model-based image reconstruction in data-sharing Fourier imaging," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 22, pp. 1026-1030, 2003. E. M. Haacke, Z.-P. Liang, "Challenges of imaging structure and function with magnetic resonance imaging: The need for new image reconstruction and processing tools," IEEE-BMES Magazine, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 55-62, 2000. C. P. Hess, Z.-P. Liang, P. C. Lauterbur, "Maximum cross-entropy generalized series reconstruction," Int.J. Imaging Syst. Techn, vol. 10, pp. 258-265, 1999. F. Boada, Z.-P. Liang, E. M. Haacke, "Improved parametric reconstruction using variable projection optimization," Inverse Problems, vol. 14, pp. 19-27, 1998. C. P. Hess, H. Jiang, J. M. Hanson, Z.-P. Liang, "A software system for interactive MR signal processing," Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 15, pp. 127-130, 1997. Z.-P. Liang, H. Jiang, C. P. Hess, P. C. Lauterbur, "Dynamic imaging by model estimation," Int'l J. Imaging Syst. Techn., vol. 8, p. 551-557, 1997. Z.-P. Liang, P. C. Lauterbur, "Constrained imaging: Overcoming the limitations of the Fourier series," IEEE-BMES Magazine, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 126-132, 1996. C. P. Hess, Z.-P. Liang, "A data-consistent linear prediction method for image reconstruction from finite Fourier samples," Int. J. Imaging Syst. Techn., vol. 6, pp. 136-140, 1996. J. M. Hanson, Z.-P. Liang, R. L. Magin, J. L. Duerk, P. C. Lauterbur, "A comparison of RIGR and SVD dynamic imaging methods," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 38, pp. 155-161, 1997. J. L. Duerk, D. H. Wu, Y. C. Chung, Z.-P. Liang, J. S. Lewin, "A simulation study of SVD encoding for interventional MRI: Effects of object rotation and needle insertion," J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 6, pp. 957-960, 1996. J. M. Hanson, Z.-P. Liang, E. C. Weiner, P. C. Lauterbur, "Fast dynamic imaging using two reference images," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 36, pp. 172-175, 1996. Z.-P. Liang, P.C. Lauterbur, "An efficient method for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 13, pp. 677-686, 1994. Z.-P. Liang, P. C. Lauterbur, "A theoretical analysis of the SLIM technique," J. Magn. Reson., Series B, vol. 102, pp. 54-60, 1993. Z.-P. Liang, F. E. Boada, R. T. Constable, E. M. Haacke, P. C. Lauterbur, M. R. Smith, "Constrained reconstruction methods in MR imaging," Rev. Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 4, pp. 67-185, 1992. Z.-P. Liang, P. C. Lauterbur, "A generalized series approach to MR spectroscopic imaging," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 10, pp. 132-137, 1991. S. Amartur, Z.-P. Liang, F. Boada, E.M. Haacke, "Phase-constrained data extrapolation method for reduction of truncation artifacts," J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 1, pp. 721-724, 1991. E. M. Haacke, Z.-P. Liang, F. Boada, "Image reconstruction using projection onto convex sets, model constraints and linear prediction theory for the removal of phase, motion, and Gibbs artifacts in magnetic resonance and ultrasound imaging," Optical Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 555-566, 1990. Z.-P. Liang, E.M. Haacke, C.W. Thomas, "High resolution inversion of limited Fourier transformdata using a localized polynomial approximation model," Inverse Problems, vol. 5, pp. 831-847, 1989. E.M. Haacke, Z.-P. Liang, S.H. Izen, "Constrained reconstruction: A superresolution, optimal signal-to-noise, alternative to the Fourier transform in magnetic resonance imaging," Medical Physics, vol. 16, pp. 388-397, 1989. E.M. Haacke, Z.-P. Liang, S.H. Izen, "Superresolution reconstruction through object modeling and estimation," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, vol. 37, pp. 592-595, 1989.

Image Processing: D. Hernando , D.C. Karampinos, K.F. King, J.P. Haldar, S. Majumdar, J.G. Georgiadis, Z.-P. Liang, "Removal of Olefinic fat chemical shift artifact in diffusion MRI," Magn. Reson. Med., 65:692-701, 2011. J. P. Haldar, Z. Wang, G. Popescu, Z.-P. Liang, "Deconvolved spatial light interference microscopy for live cell imaging," IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, pp. 2489-2497, 2011. L. Ying, Z.-P. Liang, D. C. Munson, R. Koetter,B. J. Frey, "Unwrapping of MR phase images using a Markov random field model," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 128-136, 2006. H. Pan, S. E. Levinson, T. S. Huang, Z.-P. Liang, "A fused hidden Markov model with application to bimodal speech processing," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 53, pp. 573- 581, 2004. J. Ji, H. Pan, Z.-P. Liang, "Further analysis of interpolation effects in mutual information-based image registration," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 22, pp. 1131-1140, 2003. H. Pan, Z.-P. Liang, T. S. Huang, "Estimation of the joint probability of multisensory signals," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 22, pp. 1431-1437, 2001. M. B. Skouson, Q. Guo, Z.-P. Liang, "A bound on mutual information for image registration," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 20, pp. 843-846, 2001. Z.-P. Liang, H. Pan, R. L. Magin, N. Ahuja, T. S. Huang, "Automated registration of multimodality images by maximization of a region similarity measure," Int'l J. Imaging Syst. Techn., vol. 8, pp. 513-518, 1997. Z.-P. Liang, "A model based phase unwrapping method," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 15, pp. 893-897, 1996. E. M. Haacke, Z.-P. Liang, J. A. Tkach, "T2 deconvolution in MR imaging and NMR spectroscopy," J. Magn. Reson., vol. 76, pp. 440-457, 1988.

Applications: C. Brinegar, S. S. Schmitter, N. N. Mistry, G. A. Johnson, Z.-P. Liang. "Improving Temporal Resolution of Pulmonary Perfusion in Rats using the Partially Separable Function Model," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 64, pp. 1162-1170, 2010. J. H. Kim, J. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang, S.-K. Song, "Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Mouse Brain Stem and Cervical Spinal Cord," J. Neuroscience Methods, vol. 176, pp.186-191, 2009. P. Kellman , D. Hernando , S. Shah , S. Zuehlsdorff , R. Jerecic , C. Mancini , Z.-P. Liang, A.E. Arai, "Multi-echo Dixon Fat and Water Separation Method for Detecting Fibro-fatty Infiltration in the Myocardium," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 61, pp. 215-221, 2009. Y. Sun, D. Yang, Q. Ye, M. Williams, J. M. F. Moura, F. Boada, Z.-P. Liang, C. Ho, "Improved spatiotemporal resolution of USPIO-enhanced dynamic imaging of rat kidneys," J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 21, pp. 593-598, 2003. M. T. Banich, M. P. Milham, R. A. Atchley, N. J. Cohen, A. G. Webb, T. Wszalek, A. F. Kramer, Z.-P. Liang, A.Wright, J. Shenker, V. Barad, D. Gullett, C. Shah, C. Brown, "fMRI studies of Stroop tasks reveal unique roles of anterior and posterior brain systems in attentional selection," J. Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 988-1000, 2000. M. T. Banich, M. P. Milham, R. A. Atchley, N. J. Cohen, A. Webb, T. Wszalek, A. F. Kramer, Z.-P. Liang, V. Barad, D. Gullett, C. Shah, C. Brown, "Prefrontal regions play a predominant role in imposing an attentional 'set': Evidence from fMRI," Cogn. Brain Res., vol. 10, pp.1-9, 2000. J. A. Kmiecik, C. D. Gregory, Z.-P. Liang, P. C. Lauterbur, M. J. Dawson, "Lactate quantitation in a gerbil brain stroke model by GSliM of multiple-quantum-filtered signals," Cogn. Brain Res., vol. 9, pp. 539-543, 1999. J. A. Kmiecik, C. D. Gregory, Z.-P. Liang, D. E. Hrad, P. C. Lauterbur, M. J. Dawson, "Quantitative lactate imaging of skeletal muscle at macroscopic and microscopic resolutions using a zero-quantum/double-quantum filter and SliM/GSliM localization," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 37, pp. 840-850, 1997. S. Xu, Y. Yang, C. D. Gregory, J. C. Vary, Z.-P. Liang, M. J. Dawson, "Biochemical heterogeneity in hysterectomized uterus measured by 31P NMR using SLIM localization," Magn. Reson. Med., vol. 37, pp. 736-743, 1997. S. Chandra, Z.-P. Liang, A. G. Webb, H. Lee, H. D. Morris, P. C. Lauterbur, "Application of reduced-encoding imaging with generalized series reconstruction (RIGR) in dynamic MR imaging," J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 6, pp. 783-797, 1996. A. Webb, Z.-P. Liang, R. L. Magin, P.C. Lauterbur, "Reduced-encoding imaging by generalized series reconstruction (RIGR): Applications to biological MRI," J. Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 3, pp. 925-928, 1993. F. Boada, E.M. Haacke, W. Tobocman, K. Santosh, Z.-P. Liang, "Superresolution applied to ultrasound scattering," Inverse Problems, vol. 5, pp. L21-L26, 1989.