Haiying Tang completed her Ph.D. degree in 1998 in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai JiaoTong University, China. Her background training includes medical image registration, enhancement, segmentation algorithm development, pseudo-color processing, and interactive 2D/3D image processing and visualization software system design and implementation. In March 1999, Dr. Tang joined Dympna Gallagher at the Obesity Research Center as a postdoctoral research scientist to work on body composition protocols using the HATCH NMR Research Center at Columbia University, in collaboration with Ed Wu, Ph.D. (Department of Radiology). In the past four years, she has worked on In-VIVO body composition studies in rats using high resolution MRI (4.2 Tesla). She has developed algorithms and software for 3D data segmentation, quantification, correction, visualization and related image manipulation. The major techniques have been validated. The software can be used in the longitudinal study of body composition. Dr. Tang is currently an associate research scientist in Department of Radiology of Columbia University. She is engaged in micro-imaging studies using 9.4T high field NMR scanner, NMR applications in biomedicine, and sequence pulse programming development using 1.5T NMR scanner.
Her research interest includes high-resolution cardiac NMR imaging and study of regional intramyocardial blood volume distribution, high-resolution brain imaging for the study of in vivo CBV mapping using mouse model, and longitudinal body composition NMR imaging using Guinea pig as model for drug study.