PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Wen-Chau Wu  
Sex: Male
Citizenship: Taiwan, ROC
Date of Birth: December 31, 1973
Place of Birth: Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Language: Chinese, English
E-mail: f86148@ee.ntu.edu.tw
Phone: +886-2-23635251 ext. 307
Address: R238, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, ROC


EDUCATION

9/1991-6/1995 B.S.
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
9/1997-6/1998 M.S. program (approved for entrance into Ph.D. program directly in 1998),
Biomedical Engineering Group,
Institute of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
9/1998-12/2002 Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering Group,
Institute of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC


TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  1. Experience with computing environments: Windows

  2. Programming experience: MATLAB, C, Borland C++ Builder

  3. Spatial preprocessing and statistical analysis: MATLAB, SYSTAT, SPM

  4. 4. Scanning experience: 1.5 T Vision+ MRI Magnet, Siemens


WORK EXPERIENCES

8/1997 - 7/1999 Research assistant on "Development of Ultrafast imaging technique on conventional MRI system"
National Science Council / Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
7/1999 - 6/2000 Research assistant on "MR spectroscopy and Magnetic resonance based hippocampal volume measurement in children with epilepsy and history of complex febrile convulsion"
Department of Radiology
Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

8/1999 - 7/2002 Research assistant on "Susceptibility-Contrast Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Study of Human Ischemic Stroke"
National Science Council / Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

8/2002 - 1/2003 Research assistant on "MR Flow Analysis in the Measurements of CSF Production Rate and Intracranial Pressure"
National Science Council / Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
2/2003 - 7/2003 Assistant professor
Department of Radiological Technology,
Yuanpei University of Science and Technology

Postdoctoral researcher
Biomedical Engineering Group,
Institute of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC



CONFERENCE ATTENDED

  1. 11th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, Canada, 2003.

  2. 10th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Hawaii, USA, 2002.

  3. 51st Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of R.O.C, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, 2002

  4. 50th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of R.O.C, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, 2001

  5. International MRI conference & workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, 2000

  6. 8th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Denver, USA, 2000.

  7. 49th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of ROC, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C, 2000.

  8. 7th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Penn., USA, 1999.

  9. 48th Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of ROC, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, 1999.

  10. Annual Symposium of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, 1998

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Hsiao-Wen Chung, Wen-Chau Wu and Hsiao-Jen Chung, "A reinvestigation of the extended counting method for fractal analysis of the pial vasculature (letter)" J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2002;22:361-365.

  2. Wen-Chau Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, Hsiao-Wen Chung, Chun-Jung Juan, Chun-Jen Hsueh and Hong-Wei Gao, ¡§Discrepant MR spectroscopic and perfusion imaging results in a case of malignant transformation of cerebral glioma¡¨ AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2002;23:1775-1778.

  3. Wen-Chau Wu, Hsiao-Wen Chung and Hsiao-Jen Chung. ¡§Fractal analysis in liver fibrosis (letter)¡¨ Hepatology 2003;37:483-484.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. Wen-Chau Wu, Yi-Jui Liu, Tsu-Chao Chuang, Cheng-Yu Chen and Hsiao-Wen Chung, "A modified two-component model to evaluate blood-brain-barrier permeability using single-echo dynamic contrast-enhanced T2*-weighted MR imaging" Proc. ISMRM 11th Ann. Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

  2. Wen-Chau Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Spatial distribution of apparent diffusion coefficient in cerebral gliomas: possible pathological implications as suggested by correlated rCBV and chemical shift imaging¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 11th Ann. Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

  3. Yi-Jui Liu, Wen-Chau Wu, Ming-Long Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Evaluation of blood-brain-barrier permeability using independent component analysis¡¨ Proceedings of 52nd Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of R.O.C., Taichung, R.O.C., 2003.

  4. Wen-Chau Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, Hsiao-Wen Chung and Hong-Wei Gao, ¡§Prognostic value of proton MR spectroscopy in malignant transformation of cerebral glioma: report of a case with otherwise initial benign MR imaging and perfusion findings¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 10th Ann. Meeting, Honolulu, USA, 2002.

  5. Wen-Chau Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, Hsiao-Wen Chung and Wu Ming-Ting, ¡§Influence of SPM normalization upon apparent diffusion coefficient mapping: a preliminary study¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 10th Ann. Meeting, Honolulu, USA, 2002.

  6. Wen-Chau Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, Hsiao-Wen Chung and Hong-Wei Gao, ¡§Discrepant MR spectroscopic and perfusion imaging results in malignant transformation of cerebral glioma: A case report.¡¨ Proceedings of 51st Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of R.O.C, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, 2002.

  7. Wen-Chau Wu, Kuo-Hsiang Kao, Ping-Hong Lai and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Multi-component decaying behavior on high-b-value diffusion-weighted MRI¡¨ Proc. IEEE BMES, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001.

  8. Wen-Chau Wu, Kuo-Hsiang Kao, Ping-Hong Lai, Cheng-Yu Chen, and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Observation of multi-exponential decaying behavior on diffusion-weighted images with high b values: effects of neural fiber orientations and selection of the regions of interest¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 9th Ann. Meeting, Glasgow, UK, 2001

  9. Wen-Chau Wu, Ming-Long Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Regional Discrepancy of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Cerebral Gliomas: Correlation with tumor rCBV and CSI¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 8th Ann. Meeting, Denver, USA, 2000.

  10. Wen-Chau Wu, Ming-Long Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Comparison of Volumetry and Proton MRS in Hippocampi of Children with History of Febrile Convulsion and/or Temporal Lobe Epilepsy¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 8th Ann. Meeting, Denver, USA, 2000.

  11. Ming-Long Wu, Wen-Chau Wu, Cheng-Wen Ko, Cheng-Yu Chen, and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Angiogenesis in cerebral gliomas:T2* rCBV map versus pathological vascularity¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 8th Ann. Meeting, Denver, USA, 2000.

  12. Ming-Long Wu, Wen-Chau Wu, Hsiao-Wen Chung, and Cheng-Yu Chen, ¡§A Simple Efficient Algorithm for Brain Segmentation on T1-weighted Images Employing Edge Detection¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 8th Ann. Meeting, Denver, USA, 2000.

  13. Cheng-Wen Ko, Wen-Chau Wu, Ming-Long Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Preoperative Differentiation of Benign from Malignant Cerebral Glioma using Perfusion EPI and CSI: Preliminary Results¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 8th Ann. Meeting, Denver, USA, 2000.

  14. Wen-Chau Wu, Cheng-Yu Chen, and Hsiao-Wen Chung, ¡§Hippocampus Volume Measurement in Children with Febrile Convulsion History¡¨ Proc. ISMRM 7th Ann. Meeting, 1: 864, Penn., USA, 1999.