Education & Concurrent Positions

• B.S. Laser Technology, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China, 1985
• M.S. Applied Optics, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China, 1988
• M.S. Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, U.S.A,  2002
• Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Medical Univ. of Luebeck, Germany, 1996
• Post doc. Tissue Oximetry Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.A,  1996-1997
• Post doc. Biomedical Imaging, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), U.S.A.,  1997-1999
• Research Scientist, Pittsburgh NMR Center, CMU, U.S.A., 1999-2002
• Assistant Scientist, Medical Department, BNL, 2002-2004
• Associate Scientist, Medical Department, BNL, 2004-present
• Tenure-track Assistant Professor,Medical School, SUNY at Stony Brook (SUNY_SB), 2006-present
• Adjunct faculty in the Program of Biomedical Engineering, SUNY-SB, 2007-present

Selected Publications

• Luo Z., Wang Z., Yuan Z., Du C.W. and Pan Y.
  “Optical coherence Doppler tomography quantifies laser speckle contrast imaging for blood flow imaging in the rat cerebral cortex.”
  Optics Letters, 33: 1156-1158 (2008).
• Pan Y.T., Wu Z.L., Yuan Z.J., Wang Z.G. and Du C.W.
  Subcellular imaging of epithelium with time-lapse optical coherence tomography. J. of Biomedical Optics, 12(5):050504 (2007).  PubMed
• Benveniste H., Ma Y., Dhawan J., Gifford A., Smith S.D., Feinstein I., Du C., Grant S.C. and Hof P.R.
  Anatomical and functional phenotyping of mice models of Alzheimer’s disease by MR microscopy.
  Ann. N.Y. Acad Sci., 1097:12-29 (2007).  PubMed
• Du C., Yu M., Volkow N.D., Koretsky A.P., Fowler J.S. and Benveniste H.
  Cocaine increases the intracellular calcium concentration in brain independently of its cerebrovascular effects.
  J. of Neuroscience, 26(45):11522-11531 (2006).  PubMed
• Du C., Koretsky A.P., Izrailtyan I., Benveniste H.
  Simultaneous detection in vivo of changes in cerebral blood volume, oxygenation and intracellular calcium during cerebral ischemia and reperfusion using diffuse reflectance and fluorescence.
  J Cereb Blood Flow Metab., 25(8):1078-1092 (2005).  PubMed
• Benveniste H., Fowler J.S., Rooney W., Ding Y.S., Baumann A., Moller D.H., Du C., Backus W., Logan J., Carter P., Copeland J., Biegon A., Rosenblum L., Scharf B., Gatley S.J. and Volkow N.
  Maternal and Fetal [11C] Cocaine Uptake and Kinetics Measured in vivo by Combined MRI and PET in Pregnant Non-human Primates.
  J. Necl. Med, 46(2):312-320 (2005).  PubMed
• Pan Y.T., Wu Q., Wang Z.G., Du C.W. and Brink P.R.
  High-Resolution Imaging Characterization of Bladder Dynamic Morphophysiology with Time-Lapse Optical Coherence Tomography.
  Optics Letters, 30(17):2263-2265 (2005).  PubMed
• Du C., Pan Y.T., MacGowan G.A., Koretsky A.P.
  Decreasing motion artifacts in calcium-dependent fluorescence transients from the perfused mouse heart using frequency filtering.
  Cell Calcium, 35(2):141-153 (2004).  PubMed
• Pan Y.T., Xie T.Q., Du C., Bastacky S., Meyers S. and Zeidel M.L.
  Enhancing early bladder cancer detection with fluorescence-guided endoscopic optical coherence tomography.
  Optics Letters, 28(24):2485-2487 (2003).  PubMed
• Du C., Pan Y.T., MacGowan G.A. and Koretsky A.P.
  Separation of calcium transients and motion artifact using frequency filtering of fluorescent signals arising from the perfused mouse heart.
  Proceedings of Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), in 'Functional Monitoring and Drug-Tissue Interaction. vol. 4623, 281-286 (2002).
• MacGowan G.A., Du C. and Koretsky A.P.
  High calcium and dobutamine positive inotropy in the perfused mouse heart: myofilament calcium responsiveness, energetic economy, and effects of protein kinase C inhibition.
  BMC Physiology, 1:12 (2001).  PubMed
• Du C., MacGowan G.A., Farkas D.L. and Koretsky A.P.
  Calibration of calcium dissociation constant of Rhod2 in the perfused mouse heart using manganese quenching.
  Cell Calcium, 29(4):217-227 (2001).  PubMed
• Du C., MacGowan G.A., Farkas D.L. and Koretsky A.P.
  Calcium Measurement in perfused mouse heart: Quantitating fluorescence and absorbance of Rhod-2 by application of photon migration theory.
  Biophy. J., 80(1):549-561 (2001).  PubMed
• MacGowan G.A., Du C., Wieczorek D.F. and Koretsky A.P.
  Compensatory changes in Ca(2+) and myocardial O(2) consumption in b-tropomyosin transgenic hearts. Am J. of Physiol. Heart Cire.
  Physiol., 281(6):H2539-2548 (2001).  PubMed
• MacGowan G.A., Du C., Glonty V., Suhan J.P., Farkas D.L. and Koretsky A.P.
  Rhod-2 based measurements of intracellular calcium in the perfused mouse heart: Cellular and subcellular localization, and response to positive inotropy.
  J. Biomedical Optics, 6(1):23-30 (2001).  PubMed
• MacGowan G.A., Du C., Cowan D.B., Stamm C., McGowan F.X., Solaro R.J., Koretsky A.P. and de Nido P.J.
  Ischemic dysfuction in transgenic mice expressing troponin I lacking pro-tein kinase C phosphorylation sites.
  Am. J. of Physiol. Heart Circ. Physio., 280(2):H835-H843 (2001).  PubMed

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