Curriculum Vitae of Qianqian Fang

Qianqian Fang

[Contact Information][Education][Professional Experience][Honors&Awards][Publications][Presentations][Computer Skills]

Contact Information

Institution

Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Address

13th Street, Building 149, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129

Email

fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

URL

http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~fangq/

Education

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering

12/2004

Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755

Dissertation title: "Computational methods for microwave medical imaging"
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Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering

7/1999

Univ. of Electronic Sci. & Tech. of China (UESTC), Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Major: electromagnetic field and microwave technology

Professional Experience

Research Fellow

2/2005~Present

MGH/MIT/HMS A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

My major focuses include clinical study of breast cancer using combined diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and tomosynthesis, investigation of optical contrast and dynamic signature of tissue under compression, designing efficient algorithms for image reconstruction, conducting in vivo experiments and data analysis, imaging system maintenance and modifications.

Research Assistant

9/2000~1/2005

Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

I was actively involved in developing a new generation microwave medical imaging system for breast cancer detection and thermal therapy. Particularly, I focused on algorithm design and software development, including 3D fast forward/inverse scattering algorithm, phase unwrapping theory, finite element and finite difference methods, regularization, adjoint method, SVD analysis and mesh generation. Efforts also include in vivo animal and clinical experiments and extensive data processing.

Research Assistant

3/1999~8/2000

Antenna (Computational Electromagnetics) Lab, UESTC

I implemented finite difference-time domain (FDTD) method with PML absorbing boundary condition in electromagnetic pulse well-logging, and built data-acquisition software for real-time EM scattering measurement.

Research Assistant

9/1996~3/1999

Microwave Lab, UESTC

I participated the development of high performance millimeter microwave switch, shared duties in circuit modeling, optimization, schematics, and testing.

Professional Membership

IEEE, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS)

SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering

Publications

Book chapter

Meaney PM, Fang Q, "Chapter 7. Microwave imaging: A model-based approach", Alternative Breast Imaging-Four Model-Based Approaches, Paulsen KD, Meaney PM, Gilman L(Eds.), Kluwer, 2004

Journal articles

Fang Q, Selb J, Carp SA, Kopans DB, Moore RH, Brooks DH, Miller EL, Boas DA, “Combined Optical and Tomosynthesis Breast Imaging with Spectrally Constrained Image Reconstruction Algorithm,” Radiology, (in preparation).
Carp SA, Selb J, Fang Q, , Boas D, “Dynamic functional and mechanical response to breast compression as followed through photon migration measurements,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, (in preparation)
Fang Q, Carp SA, Selb J, Boverman G, Zhang Q, Kopans DB, Moore RH, Brooks DH, Miller EL, Boas DA, “Combined optical Imaging and mammography of the healthy breast: optical contrast derives from breast structure and compression,” IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, (submitted).
Fang Q, Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, “Viable three-dimensional microwave imaging, theory and experiments,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, (in preparation).
Boverman G, Miller EL,Brooks DH, Fang Q, Boas DA, "Estimation and Statistical Bounds for Three-Dimensional Polar Shapes in Diffuse Optical Tomography", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (in preparation).
Boverman G, Fang Q, Carp SA, Miller EL,Brooks DH,Selb J,Moore RH,Kopans DB, Boas DA, "Spatio-Temporal Imaging of the Hemoglobin in the Compressed Breast With Diffuse Optical Tomography", Phys. Med. Biol. (in press).
Meaney PM, Fanning MW, Raynolds T, Fox CJ, Fang Q, Kogel CA, Poplack SP, Paulsen KD, "Initial Clinical Experience with Microwave Breast Imaging in Women with Normal Mammography", Acad Radiol., vol. 14, pp. 207-218, 2007.
Meaney PM, Fang Q, Rubaek T, Paulsen KD, “Log transformation benefits parameter estimation in microwave tomographic imaging,” Medical Physics, (submitted)
Carp SA, Kauffman T, Fang Q, Rafferty E, Moore R, Kopans D, Boas D, “Compression-induced changes in the physiological state of the breast as observed through frequency domain photon migration measurements,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 11, issue 6, Nov./Dec. 2006.
Fang Q, Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, " The Multi-dimensional Phase Unwrapping Integral and Applications to Microwave Tomographical Image Reconstruction,"IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, vol 15, No. 11, pp. 3311-3324, (in press)
Fang Q, Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, " Singular Value Analysis of the Jacobian Matrix in Microwave Image Reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, vol. 54, No. 8, Aug. 2006
Fang Q, Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, " Microwave image reconstruction of tissue property dispersion characteristics utilizing multiple frequency information", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 52, Aug. 2004.
Fang Q, Meaney PM, Geimer SD, Streltsov AV, Paulsen KD, " Microwave image reconstruction from 3D fields coupled to 2D parameter estimation," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 23, pp. 475-484, Apr. 2004.
Meaney PM, Fanning MW, Paulsen KD, Li D, Pendergrass SA, Fang Q, Moodie KL, "Microwave thermal imaging: Initial in vivo experience with a single heating zone,"International Journal of Hyperthermia, vol. 19, pp. 617-641, 2003.
Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, Fanning MW, Li D, Fang Q, "Image accuracy improvements in microwave tomographic thermometry: phantom experience," International Journal of Hyperthermia, vol. 19, pp. 534-550, 2003.

Conference (Selected):

Fang Q, Boas D, Boverman G, Zhang Q, Kauffman T," Nonlinear image reconstruction algorithm for diffuse optical tomography using iterative block solver and automatic mesh generation from tomosynthesis images,"Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 6081,Feb., 2006
Fang Q, Meaney PM, Paulsen KD, " Phase unwrapping in the presence of scattering nulls and applications to microwave imaging," The IASTED Int. Conf. on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation Apr. 2004
Meaney PM, Fang Q, Fanning MW, Pendergrass SA, Raynolds T, Fox CJ, Paulsen KD, "Microwave breast imaging with an under-determined reconstruction parameter mesh," 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging from Nano to Macro, Arlington, VA, 2004
Li D, Meaney PM, Fanning MW, Fang Q, Pendergrass SA, Raynolds T, "Spectrum analysis of microwave breast examination data and reconstructed images", In Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pp. 62-65, July 2002
Meaney PM, Fang Q, Geimer SD, Streltsov AV, Paulsen KD, "3D scalar microwave image reconstruction algorithm", Microwave Symposium Digest 2002 IEEE MTT-S International, vol. 3 2-7 pp. 2269 -2272, June 2002
Meaney PM, Fanning MW, Fang Q, Paulsen KD, "Initial experience with a microwave imaging system for monitoring temperature change in an animal model", Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE, vol. 3 25-28 pp. 2844 -2847, Oct. 2001

Selected Presentations

" Second Generation Microwave Imaging System: Phantom and Early Clinical Experience", Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Hawaii, Oct. 14, 2003
" A Closer Look to Inverse Problem using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)," Thayer School PPG Meeting, Thayer School, Apr. 17, 2003
"Adjoint Method and Multiple-Frequency Reconstruction", Thayer School PPG Meeting, Thayer School, Aug. 7, 2002
"3D Scalar Microwave Image Reconstruction Algorithm" Poster, IEEE International Microwave Symposium (MTT-S), Seattle, Jun. 6, 2002

Journal Referee

Associate Editor

Medical Physics

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT)
IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (formerly IEE Proceedings - Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation) (IET-MAP)
IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation (TAP)
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEC)
Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics (JOPA)
Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO)
Optical Letters
Optical Express (OE)

Patent

Qianqian Fang, Paul Meaney, Keith Paulsen, "Fast three dimensional microwave imaging algorithm" pending

Honors and awards

Graduate School

IEEE EMBS Travel Award Jun. 2004
Herbert Darling Fellowship, Sept. 2000

Undergraduate School

Honored Graduate of China Ministry of Electronics Industry, Jun. 1999
Excellent Thesis Award of UESTC, Jun. 1999
Outstanding Award of UESTC, Nov. 1998
Shanghai Bell Scholarship, Dec. 1998
Motorola Scholarship (twice) Dec. 1996 and Nov. 1997
First Class Award of UESTC (twice) Dec. 1996 and Nov. 1997
National First Class Award of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 1997 (CUMCM'97) Dec. 1997
Successful Participant Award of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 1996 (CUMCM'96) Dec. 1996

Computer Skills

Programming Languages

C/C++, Matlab, FORTRAN90, Perl, UNIX Shell Scripts, (with 9 years experience in C/C++, 7 years in FORTRAN and Matlab)

OS

Tru64 UNIX, Linux, Windows

Applications

Matlab, Mathematica, Tecplot, AutoCAD, VC, C++Builder/Kylix, LabView, TeX/LaTeX

Other

Parallel Computing (OpenMP & MPI)

Websites administrator for multiple non-for-profit organizations

Software and web-CGI development

Creator and maintainer of MathTools FAQ (on Mathematical software, especially matlab)

Matlab consultant for Thayer School (winter 2002/winter 2003)

The WenQuanYi Project, project creater and maintainer