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Yuan-Chuan Tai, PhD

Senior Vice Chair and Division Director, Radiology Research Facilities

Associate Professor of Radiology

Bio: Yuan-Chuan Tai is an Associate Professor in Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD in Biomedical Physics from UCLA under the late Professor Edward J. Hoffman who co-invented PET in the 1970’s at WashU. The Tai Lab develops high-resolution gamma ray detectors, novel multi-modality imaging systems, and robust image reconstruction framework to enable molecular imaging research, clinical diagnosis, guidance to therapies, and plant phenotypic imaging.