Basic Information

Name:Lihua Zhang

Sex: Female

Degree: Doctor

Education: Peking Union Medical College

Major: Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Titles: Chief Physician

Specialization

Musculoskeletal Imaging, including diagnosis of spine tumor, spine infection, degenerative spine diseases and related conditions, diagnosis of sport trauma, clinical application of imaging of peripheral nerves (MR neurography), Radiological Diagnosis of Rheumatic Immune System diseases, Radiological Diagnosis of Soft Tissue Tumor and related diseases.

Experience

2007-2009 Resident at PKUTH

2009-2014 Attending Physician at PKUTH

2014-now Associate Chief Physician

2016.1-2017.2 Fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center Medical Imaging Department, Mentor Prof. Chhabra, who is well-known for musculoskeletal imaging and peripheral nerve imaging.

Research

Outstanding Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars Fund---Peripheral nerve imaging research

Innovative Project of PKUTH---Application of Whole Body Diffusion Imaging in Myeloma

Academic Appointment

2015 till now Member of the Chinese Society of Radiology MRI Specialty Committee

2017 till now Member of the Beijing Radiology MRI Professional Committee

2018 Expert reviewer of the Journal of Clinical Radiology

Publications

(1) Zhang L, Wells JE, Dessouky R, et al. 3D CT segmentation of CAM type femoroacetabular impingement-reliability and relationship of CAM lesion with anthropomorphic features. Br J Radiol. 2018 Dec;91(1092):20180371.

(2) Zhang LH, Yuan HS. Imaging Appearances and Pathologic Characteristics of Spinal Epidural Meningioma. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2018 Jan;39(1):199-204.

(3) Zhang L, Jiang L, Yuan H, Liu Z, Liu X. Atlantoaxial Langerhans cell histiocytosis radiographic characteristics and corresponding prognosis analysis. J Craniovertebr Junction Spine. 2017 Jul-Sep;8(3):199-204.

(4) Zhang L, Dessouky R, Xi Y, Chhabra A, Le LQ. Clinical Value of Multiparametric Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging over Whole-Spine Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type I.

(5) Wang B, Zhang L, Yang S, et al. Atypical Radiographic Features of Aggressive Vertebral Hemangiomas. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2019 Jun 5;101(11):979-986

(6) Dessouky R, Chhabra A, Zhang L, Gleason A, Chopra R, Chatzinoff Y, Fey NP, Xi Y, Wells J. Cam-type femoroacetabular impingement-correlations between alpha angle versus volumetric measurements and surgical findings. Eur Radiol. 2019 Jul;29(7):3431-3440

(7) Dessouky R, Zhang L, Wadhwa V, Xi Y, Chhabra A. Self-citations in musculoskeletal radiology: frequency and pattern analysis. Acta Radiol. 2019 Mar 7:284185119836215.