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Hao Tan, Ph.D.

Practice Summary

Dr. Tan's practice focuses on the research and preparation of patent applications in the biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering arts.

Dr. Tan has participated in research on circuits design, digital signal processing, as well as research on medical imaging such as MRI, CT and ultrasound imaging.

He has hands on experience on HP iPAQ programming under Linux, sequence programming on Siemens MRI scanners, and TI's DSP programming.

Honors/Distinctions
  • Student Stipend of the ISMRM Toronto 2008
  • Student Stipend of the ISMRM NonCartesian workshop 2007
  • Motorola China R&D Institute Innovation Award, 2002
  • People's Scholarship, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 1995, 1996, 1998
Representative Matters
Patents
  • K-Space Trajectory Estimation in Spiral MRI System & Related Method Thereof, Hao Tan and Craig H. Meyer, US Patent Application
  • Automatic Speech Classification, Yaxin Zhang, Xin He, Xiao-Lin Ren, Fang Sun and Hao Tan, US Patent Application (Chinese Patent 03157019.4)
Publications
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  • "High Resolution ASL and BOLD Imaging in Skeletal Muscle using Spiral Sequences," Hao Tan, J. Anderson, H. Woldeyesus, C. M. Kramer and Craig H. Meyer, Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 16 (2008), pp. 2576.
  • "Hyperpolarized-Gas Lung Imaging using a Single-shot Spiral Acquisition," Hao Tan, W. Chen, P. Hu, G. Miller, T. Altes, J. Mata, E. Lange, G. Cates, R. Lee, Craig H. Meyer and J. Mugler III, Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 16 (2008), pp.3689.
  • "K-Space Trajectory Estimation in Spiral Imaging," Hao Tan and Craig H. Meyer, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 61:1396-1404 (2009).
  • "K-Space Trajectory Estimation in Spiral Imaging," Hao Tan and Craig H. Meyer, Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 15 (2007), pp. 981.
  • "Point Spread Function Optimization for MRI Reconstruction," Hao Tan and Yibin Zheng, Proceedings of ICASSP-2005, Vol. 2, pp. 477-480.
  • "Transmit Signal Design for Optimal Deconvolution," Hao Tan and Yibin Zheng, Proceedings of ICASSP-2004, Vol. 2, pp. 553-556.
Memberships & Affiliations
  • International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Legal Experience
  • Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Chicago, Illinois
    Scientific Advisor, October 2008-Present
Non-Legal Experience
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
    Teaching Assistant for Advanced Digital Design, Spring 2006
    Teaching Assistant for Signal and Systems, Spring 2005
  • GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY
    Summer intern, May 2005-August 2005
  • Motorola China Research Center, Shanghai, China
    Speech Recognition Team, September 2000-May 2002