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Biography
Dr Haiwei Chen is a Mansfield Fellow in Ultra-High Field MRI at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham. He received his PhD from The University of Queensland, Australia, where his research focused on innovative RF coil array design and the application of artificial electromagnetic materials for RF field manipulation in ultra-high field MRI systems.
Dr Chen's work lies at the intersection of RF engineering, electromagnetic simulation, and biomedical imaging. His contributions include the development of high-performance transmit/receive RF coil systems, novel SAR measurement techniques, and metamaterial-inspired devices to enhance field homogeneity and imaging efficiency. He has collaborated with both academic and industrial partners to advance MRI hardware toward improved safety and diagnostic capabilities.
Expertise Summary
RF coil design for high-field and ultra-high field MRI; artificial electromagnetic materials and metamaterials; electromagnetic field simulation; RF safety and SAR measurement; MRI system integration and hardware development; experimental validation and regulatory compliance for medical imaging devices.
Research Summary
Dr Haiwei Chen's research focuses on advanced RF engineering for ultra-high field MRI, with particular emphasis on the design of multi-channel transmit/receive RF coil arrays and the application of… read more
Selected Publications
CHEN, HAIWEI, GUO, LEI, LOU, FEIYANG, GAO, YANG, QUAN, ZHIYAN, LIU, CHUNYI, BOULANT, NICOLAS, LIU, FENG and ZHANG, XIAOTONG, 2025. Asymmetrical Planar Folded Dipole Antennas for Human Body MRI at 7 T IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 73(5), 2766-2779 CHEN, HAIWEI, GUO, LEI, LI, MINGYAN, DESTRUEL, AURELIEN, LIU, CHUNYI, WEBER, EWALD, LIU, FENG and CROZIER, STUART, 2021. Metamaterial-Inspired Radiofrequency (RF) Shield With Reduced Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) and Improved Transmit Efficiency for UHF MRI IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 68(4), 1178-1189 WANG, YUHAO, CHEN, HAIWEI, GAO, YANG, QUAN, ZHIYAN, PAN, SIHONG and ZHANG, XIAOTONG, 2024. A Hilbert Dipoles-Based Hybrid Metasurface for Ultrahigh-Field MRI IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 1-9 QUAN, ZHIYAN, TANG, XIAOCUI, SHANG, HAIFANG, PAN, SIHONG, CHEN, HAIWEI, TANG, YI, GAO, YANG and ZHANG, XIAOTONG, 2023. A Detachable and Rotatable 14-Channel Coil Array for Human Brain Intraoperative/Interventional MRI at 3 T IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 72, 1-7
Current Research
Dr Haiwei Chen's research focuses on advanced RF engineering for ultra-high field MRI, with particular emphasis on the design of multi-channel transmit/receive RF coil arrays and the application of artificial electromagnetic materials. His work integrates electromagnetic simulation, hardware development, and experimental validation to improve B1 field uniformity, imaging efficiency, and RF safety across 3T, 7T, and beyond. He has developed RF coil arrays, metamaterial-inspired components, and high-permittivity structures to manipulate RF field distributions, and contributed to the development of practical methods for SAR evaluation and simulation-experiment correlation. Combining electromagnetic simulation, bench validation, and in-vivo testing, his research aims to advance the safety, efficiency, and clinical applicability of RF technologies in next-generation MRI systems. Moving forward, his work will focus on RF system innovation for 7T and 11.7T MRI, aiming to address technical challenges in field uniformity, SAR management, and coil performance, and to enable the next generation of UHF MRI systems for both research and clinical use.