An Vu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Subsequently as a senior research scientist at Advanced MRI Technologies, Dr. Vu continued to advance the field of high spatiotemporal resolution fMRI through multiple BRAIN Initiative projects. In 2016, Dr. Vu took on the roles of physicist in Radiology at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System (SFVAHCS) and Technical Director for the Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND) at the SFVAHCS, where he developed internationally patent pending fMRI technology, spear headed major upgrades and expansions of the 7T MRI system at the SFVAHCS, and serves on both the UCSF and VA MRI Safety Committees. In March of 2019, Dr. Vu accepted the position of assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF and at the SFVAHCS, where he serves as Director of Advanced Imaging Technologies for the Veteran Affairs Advanced Imaging Research Center (VAARC).

• Acoustic noise reduction in the NexGen 7 T scanner.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2024 Boulant N, Ma S, Walker E, Beckett A, Vu AT, Gunamony S, Feinberg DA
• Development and Validation of a Novel Placental DNA Methylation Biomarker of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy in the ECHO Program.
  Environmental health perspectives 2024 Shorey-Kendrick LE, Davis B, Gao L, Park B, Vu A, Morris CD, Breton CV, Fry R, Garcia E, Schmidt RJ, O'Shea TM, Tepper RS, McEvoy CT, Spindel ER, program collaborators for Environmental influences on …
• Demographic Comparison of the Burden of Endoscopically Screenable Cancers in the United States.
  Gastro hep advances 2024 Wang CP, McKinley M, Vu A, Yang JY, Gupta S, Gomez SL, Kim MK, Itzkowitz SH, Shah SC
• Next-generation MRI scanner designed for ultra-high-resolution human brain imaging at 7 Tesla.
  Nature methods 2023 Feinberg DA, Beckett AJS, Vu AT, Stockmann J, Huber L, Ma S, Ahn S, Setsompop K, Cao X, Park S, Liu C, Wald LL, Polimeni JR, Mareyam A, Gruber B, Stirnberg R, Liao C, Yacoub E, Davids M, Bell P, …
• A 128-channel receive array for cortical brain imaging at 7 T.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2023 Gruber B, Stockmann JP, Mareyam A, Keil B, Bilgic B, Chang Y, Kazemivalipour E, Beckett AJS, Vu AT, Feinberg DA, Wald LL
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine: Recommendations for Acquisition and Image Evaluation from the BACPAC Spine Imaging Working Group.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2023 Sollmann N, Fields AJ, O'Neill C, Nardo L, Majumdar S, Chin CT, Tosun D, Han M, Vu AT, Ozhinsky E, Shah LM, Harris RE, Lobo R, Anderst W, Herzog R, Psioda MA, Standaert CJ, Price RT, Lotz JC, Link TM,…
• Distortion correction of functional MRI without reverse phase encoding scans or field maps.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2023 Yu T, Cai LY, Torrisi S, Vu AT, Morgan VL, Goodale SE, Ramadass K, Meisler SL, Lv J, Warren AEL, Englot DJ, Cutting L, Chang C, Gore JC, Landman BA, Schilling KG
• Peripheral nerve stimulation informed design of a high-performance asymmetric head gradient coil.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2023 Davids M, Dietz P, Ruyters G, Roesler M, Klein V, Guérin B, Feinberg DA, Wald LL
• Characterizing breast cancer incidence and trends among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and non-Hispanic White women in Hawai'i, 1990-2014.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2022 Ihenacho U, McKinley MA, Vu A, Hernandez BY, Loo LWM, Gomez SL, Wu AH, Cheng I
• Reduced ER-mitochondria connectivity promotes neuroblastoma multidrug resistance.
  The EMBO journal 2022 Çoku J, Booth DM, Skoda J, Pedrotty MC, Vogel J, Liu K, Vu A, Carpenter EL, Ye JC, Chen MA, Dunbar P, Scadden E, Yun TD, Nakamaru-Ogiso E, Area-Gomez E, Li Y, Goldsmith KC, Reynolds CP, Hajnoczky G, …
• The Role of Cerebral Metabolism in Improving Time Pressured Decisions.
  Frontiers in psychology 2021 Vu AT, Feinberg DA
• Editorial for "Combined Denoising and Suppression of Transient Artifacts in Arterial Spin Labeling MRI Using Deep Learning".
  Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2020 Vu AT
• The Human Connectome Project 7 Tesla retinotopy dataset: Description and population receptive field analysis.
  Journal of vision 2018 Benson NC, Jamison KW, Arcaro MJ, Vu AT, Glasser MF, Coalson TS, Van Essen DC, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K, Winawer J, Kay K
• Human Connectome Project-style resting-state functional MRI at 7 Tesla using radiofrequency parallel transmission.
  NeuroImage 2018 Wu X, Auerbach EJ, Vu AT, Moeller S, Van de Moortele PF, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K
• Cortical fibers orientation mapping using in-vivo whole brain 7 T diffusion MRI.
  NeuroImage 2018 Gulban OF, De Martino F, Vu AT, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K, Lenglet C
• High-resolution whole-brain diffusion MRI at 7T using radiofrequency parallel transmission.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2018 Wu X, Auerbach EJ, Vu AT, Moeller S, Lenglet C, Schmitter S, Van de Moortele PF, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K
• Sensitivity and specificity considerations for fMRI encoding, decoding, and mapping of auditory cortex at ultra-high field.
  NeuroImage 2017 Moerel M, De Martino F, Kemper VG, Schmitter S, Vu AT, Ugurbil K, Formisano E, Yacoub E
• Pushing the limits of ultra-high resolution human brain imaging with SMS-EPI demonstrated for columnar level fMRI.
  NeuroImage 2017 Feinberg DA, Vu AT, Beckett A
• Evaluation of SLIce Dithered Enhanced Resolution Simultaneous MultiSlice (SLIDER-SMS) for human fMRI.
  NeuroImage 2017 Vu AT, Beckett A, Setsompop K, Feinberg DA
• Decoding the Semantic Content of Natural Movies from Human Brain Activity.
  Frontiers in systems neuroscience 2016 Huth AG, Lee T, Nishimoto S, Bilenko NY, Vu AT, Gallant JL
• Using precise word timing information improves decoding accuracy in a multiband-accelerated multimodal reading experiment.
  Cognitive neuropsychology 2016 Vu AT, Phillips JS, Kay K, Phillips ME, Johnson MR, Shinkareva SV, Tubridy S, Millin R, Grossman M, Gureckis T, Bhattacharyya R, Yacoub E
• Fusion in diffusion MRI for improved fibre orientation estimation: An application to the 3T and 7T data of the Human Connectome Project.
  NeuroImage 2016 Sotiropoulos SN, Hernández-Fernández M, Vu AT, Andersson JL, Moeller S, Yacoub E, Lenglet C, Ugurbil K, Behrens TEJ, Jbabdi S
• Polyamine Antagonist Therapies Inhibit Neuroblastoma Initiation and Progression.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2016 Evageliou NF, Haber M, Vu A, Laetsch TW, Murray J, Gamble LD, Cheng NC, Liu K, Reese M, Corrigan KA, Ziegler DS, Webber H, Hayes CS, Pawel B, Marshall GM, Zhao H, Gilmour SK, Norris MD, Hogarty MD
• Using a Multitest Algorithm to Improve the Positive Predictive Value of Rapid HIV Testing and Linkage to HIV Care in Nonclinical HIV Test Sites.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2016 Delaney KP, Rurangirwa J, Facente S, Dowling T, Janson M, Knoble T, Vu A, Hu YW, Kerndt PR, King J, Scheer S
• Using a novel source-localized phase regressor technique for evaluation of the vascular contribution to semantic category area localization in BOLD fMRI.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2015 Vu AT, Gallant JL
• High resolution whole brain diffusion imaging at 7T for the Human Connectome Project.
  NeuroImage 2015 Vu AT, Auerbach E, Lenglet C, Moeller S, Sotiropoulos SN, Jbabdi S, Andersson J, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K
• Sub-millimeter T2 weighted fMRI at 7 T: comparison of 3D-GRASE and 2D SE-EPI.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2015 Kemper VG, De Martino F, Vu AT, Poser BA, Feinberg DA, Goebel R, Yacoub E
• Simultaneous multi-slice Turbo-FLASH imaging with CAIPIRINHA for whole brain distortion-free pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling at 3 and 7 T.
  NeuroImage 2015 Wang Y, Moeller S, Li X, Vu AT, Krasileva K, Ugurbil K, Yacoub E, Wang DJ
• Changes in causes of death among persons with AIDS: San Francisco, California, 1996-2011.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2014 Schwarcz SK, Vu A, Hsu LC, Hessol NA
• Functional mapping of the magnocellular and parvocellular subdivisions of human LGN.
  NeuroImage 2014 Denison RN, Vu AT, Yacoub E, Feinberg DA, Silver MA
• Pushing spatial and temporal resolution for functional and diffusion MRI in the Human Connectome Project.
  NeuroImage 2013 Ugurbil K, Xu J, Auerbach EJ, Moeller S, Vu AT, Duarte-Carvajalino JM, Lenglet C, Wu X, Schmitter S, Van de Moortele PF, Strupp J, Sapiro G, De Martino F, Wang D, Harel N, Garwood M, Chen L, Feinberg …
• Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project.
  NeuroImage 2013 Smith SM, Beckmann CF, Andersson J, Auerbach EJ, Bijsterbosch J, Douaud G, Duff E, Feinberg DA, Griffanti L, Harms MP, Kelly M, Laumann T, Miller KL, Moeller S, Petersen S, Power J, Salimi-Khorshidi G…
• A continuous semantic space describes the representation of thousands of object and action categories across the human brain.
  Neuron 2012 Huth AG, Nishimoto S, Vu AT, Gallant JL
• Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies.
  Current biology : CB 2011 Nishimoto S, Vu AT, Naselaris T, Benjamini Y, Yu B, Gallant JL