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Biography

Dr. Kou is a translational neuroscientist, biomedical engineer and also an imager.He focuses on the use of advanced imaging technologies to provide solutions for clinical problems. Particularly, he is specialized in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of traumatic brain injury and clinical neuroscience in general. Along with other imaging modalities, he investigates the cerebral hemodynamic, metabolic and connectomic changes of the brain after head injury. By teaming up with emergency physicians, neurologists, neurointensivists, neurosurgeons and neuropsychologists, Dr. Kou's team is working on the forefront of brain injury clinical research and neuroscience investigations in a highly translational manner.

Courses Taught

• BME 5040 Engineering Analysis
• BME 6480 Biomedical Instrumentation

Awards and Honors

• 2015, NIH R21, Assessing Brain Tissue Viability after TBI: A Susceptibility Mapping Approach
• 2012, Seed Grant, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• 2011, Charles Haynes Fellowship award, North America Brain Injury Society (NABIS), for promising young professionals that best promote the mission of the society for brain injury research.

Education

Ph.D., North Dakota State University

Research Interests

Neuroimaging of traumatic brain injury, biomedical signal processing (MR pulse sequence design), biomedical image processing,  and neuroscience.

Courses taught by Zhifeng Kou

Winter Term 2024 (future)

• BME6480 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• BME7720 - MR Imaging of Neurovascular Disease
• ECE6180 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• ME6180 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• PYC7320 - MR Imaging of Neurovascular Disease

Fall Term 2023 (current)

• BME5020 - Computer and Mathematical Applications in Biomedical Engineering

Winter Term 2023

• ME6180 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• ECE6180 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• BME6480 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• BME7720 - MR Imaging of Neurovascular Disease

Fall Term 2022

• BME5020 - Computer and Mathematical Applications in Biomedical Engineering

Winter Term 2022

• ME6180 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• PYC7140 - Fundamentals of Neuroimaging
• ECE6180 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• BME6480 - Biomedical Instrumentation
• BME7720 - MR Imaging of Neurovascular Disease

Fall Term 2021

• BME5020 - Computer and Mathematical Applications in Biomedical Engineering

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