Misung Han, Ph.D, is a Professional Associate Researcher in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF. She has developed various MRI techniques, ranging over MRI acquisition, reconstruction, and quantification for breast, musculoskeletal, and brain applications both at Stanford (as a graduate student) and at UCSF. She currently belongs to both the Neuroimaging Research Group and the Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging Research Group.
She has developed new MRI methods for depicting high-resolution structure and quantifying tissue parameters in musculoskeletal tissues, including semi-solid/solid tissues, while working with other research groups, applying her technical expertise for diverse clinical applications. By working with the Focused Ultrasound Lab, she developed UTE temperature mapping methods that have the potential to assess heat deposition in cortical bone. By working with the Neuroimaging group, she developed accelerated DSC perfusion imaging techniques for brain tumor quantification and multiband TOF/SWI techniques to assess vasculature and vascular injury. She is also contributing to developing efficient 3D MRSI techniques for oncology and neurodegenerative disease applications.
She is a recipient of an NIAMS K01 grant and developed MRI techniques to comprehensively assess rotator cuff pathology. She has great interests in developing novel, efficient MRI techniques to improve diagnostic capability and to quantify image biomarkers associated with degeneration.