Zheng Feng Lu, PhD, DABR, FAAPM is a Professor of Radiology and a Clinical Diagnostic Physicist at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Section Chief of Clinical Physics and the Director of the Clinical Imaging Medical Physics Residency Program at the University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Lu holds a faculty position at the Committee on Medical Physics at the University of Chicago. She is a U.S. ultrasound expert and co-convenor for the IEC Technical Committee 87 Working Group 9 on ultrasound pulse-echo diagnostic equipment, and she also contributes to various committees of AAPM, CAMPEP, ABR, AIUM, and ACR.
American Board of Radiology
Certificate - Nuclear Medical Physics
2023American Board of Radiology
Certificate - Diag Radiological Physics
1997University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
PhD - Medical Physics
1994University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
MS - Medical Physics
1992Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
MS - Underwater Acoustics
1989Nanjing University
China
BS - Physics
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PMID: 32554694Comparison of arterial input functions measured from ultra-fast dynamic contrast enhanced MRI and dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography in prostate cancer patients.
Comparison of arterial input functions measured from ultra-fast dynamic contrast enhanced MRI and dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography in prostate cancer patients. Phys Med Biol. 2018 01 30; 63(3):03NT01.
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Portable abdomen radiography: moving to thickness-based protocols. Pediatr Radiol. 2018 02; 48(2):210-215.
PMID: 29130139Service Award
American Board of Radiology
2018 - 2021Fellow
American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM)
2016Senior Class Teaching Award
Radiology Resident Program, University of Chicago
2014