Philip K. Lee
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Ph.D. Research Scientist Google Scholar |
About
I am a Canadian currently living in the Bay Area and recently moved to a scientist position at UCSF. I collaborate closely with radiologists to improve body MRI.
I briefly lived in Shanghai and worked as a postdoc at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I created the sequences and reconstructions for a low-cost 100 mT portable MRI system that is currently acquiring images in several hospitals across China.
I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, followed by a 2-year term as a scientist in Stanford Radiology. During this period, I invented multiple diffusion imaging techniques which were precursors to my works on portable MRI.
Portable MRI has become a hot topic in the past ~10 years, and it is expected these systems will improve accessibility to remote areas and low-income countries. These systems can generally be manufactured for $20-100k USD and when compared to conventional superconducting systems, should be 5-10 times cheaper per unit. Although image quality is worse, it is expected to be sufficient for some specific clinical applications such as stroke imaging.
Research Interests
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Compressed sensing, pulse sequences, diffusion imaging
Clinical translation