CIBM | Center for Biomedical Imaging

MRI EPFL Animal Imaging and Technology Section

Lijing Xin is a staff scientist at the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Her research interests focus on developing cutting-edge magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods for better understanding the brain function and the pathophysiology of neurological diseases. She obtained her PhD in physics from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2010, where she focused on developing various novel 1H and 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) methods on high field preclinical MR scanners. Afterwards, she started working on the clinical MR platforms including both 3 and 7T and continued to improve and develop novel acquisition and quantification methods for 1H, 13C and 31P nuclei. She carries on interdisciplinary collaborations with different partners, particularly with clinical partners where translational strategies are performed to explore the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders and disease biomarkers for early diagnose and intervention.

KEYWORDS : Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H, 13C and 31P) Spin physics Schizophrenia Mood disorders MRI instrumentation