Scott N Hwang's Page

Current Organization

Emory University Hospital

Profession

Radiologist

Title

Assistant Professor

Subspecialty and Expertise in Radiology

Neuroradiology

Radiology Residency and Fellowship

New York University

Undergraduate, Medical School, and Graduate School (Degrees, Major, and Institution)

MIT
BS Electrical Engineering

University of Pennsylvania
MS Electrical Engineering
MS Bioengineering
PhD Bioengineering

Temple University School of Medicine
MD

Clinical, Academic, or Industry Experience

Academic

Clinical, academic, research, or business interests within radiology

1. Quantitative image processing and analysis.
2. Brain tumor evaluation
3. Advanced imaging techniques

Publications, Honors, and Awards

Honors and Awards

Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award (1998) - Best paper (on topics other than radiation dosimetry) to appear in Medical Physics in 1997.

Patent #6775401: Hwang SN and Wehrli FW, Subvoxel processing: a method for reducing partial volume blurring in tomographic images (Issued August 10, 2004).

Selected Publications

1. Hwang SN, Wehrli FW, 1995, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Series B, The calculation of the susceptibility-induced magnetic field from 3D NMR images with applications to trabecular bone, 109, 126-145.
2. Hwang SN, Wehrli FW, Williams JL, 1997, Med Phys, Probability-based structural parameters from three-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance images as predictors of trabecular bone strength, 24(8), 1255-1261.
3. Wehrli FW, Hwang SN, Ma J, Song HK, Ford JC, Haddad JG, 1998, Radiology, Cancellous bone volume and structure in the forearm: noninvasive assessment with MR microimaging and image processing, 206(2), 347-357.
4. Hwang SN, Wehrli FW, 1999, J Magn Reson, Experimental evaluation of a surface charge method for computing the induced magnetic field in trabecular bone, 139(1), 35-45.
5. Axel L, Kolman L, Charafeddine R, Hwang SN, Stolpen AH, 2000, Radiology, Origin of a signal intensity loss artifact in fat-saturation MR imaging, 217(3), 911-915.
6. Wehrli FW, Hopkins JA, Hwang SN, Song HK, Snyder PJ, Haddad JG, 2000, Radiology, Cross-sectional study of osteopenia with quantitative MR imaging and bone densitometry, 217(2), 527-538.
7. Wehrli FW, Gomberg BR, Saha PK, Song HK, Hwang SN, Snyder PJ, 2001, J Bone Miner Res, Digital topological analysis of in vivo magnetic resonance microimages of trabecular bone reveals structural implications of osteoporosis, 16(8), 1520-1531.
8. Wehrli FW, Hwang SN, Song HK, Gomberg BR, 2001, Adv Exp Med Biol, Visualization and analysis of trabecular bone architecture in the limited spatial resolution regime of in vivo micro-MRI, 496, 153-164.
9. Chin CL, Wehrli FW, Hwang SN, Takahashi M, Hackney DB, 2002, Magn Reson Med, Biexponential diffusion attenuation in the rat spinal cord: computer simulations based on anatomic images of axonal architecture, 47(3), 455-460.
10. Hwang SN, Wehrli FW, 2002, Magn Reson Med, Subvoxel processing: a method for reducing partial volume blurring with application to in vivo MR images of trabecular bone, 47(5), 948-957.
11. Schwartz ED, Chin CL, Takahashi M, Hwang SN, Hackney DB, 2002, Neuroimaging Clin N Am, Diffusion-weighted imaging of the spinal cord, 12(1), 125-146.
12. Takahashi M, Wehrli FW, Hilaire L, Zemel BS, Hwang SN, 2002, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, In vivo NMR microscopy allows short-term serial assessment of multiple skeletal implications of corticosteroid exposure, 99(7), 4574-4579.
13. Chin CL, Wehrli FW, Hwang SN, Jaggard DL, Hackney DB, Wehrli SW, 2003, J Magn Reson, Feasibility of probing boundary morphology of structured materials by 2D NMR q-space imaging, 160(1), 20-25.
14. Hwang SN, Chin CL, Wehrli FW, Hackney DB, 2003, Magn Reson Med, An image-based finite difference model for simulating restricted diffusion, 50(2), 373-382.
15. Chin CL, Wehrli FW, Fan Y, Hwang SN, Schwartz ED, Nissanov J, Hackney DB, 2004, Magn Reson Med, Assessment of axonal fiber tract architecture in excised rat spinal cord by localized NMR q-space imaging: simulations and experimental studies, 52(4), 733-740.
16. Ong HH, Wright AC, Wehrli SL, Souza A, Schwartz ED, Hwang SN, Wehrli FW, 2008, Neuroimage, Indirect measurement of regional axon diameter in excised mouse spinal cord with q-space imaging: simulation and experimental studies, 40(4), 1619-1632.
17. Puskas JD, Stringer A, Hwang SN, Hatfield B, Smith AS, Kilgo PD, Williams WH, 2011, J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, Neurocognitive and neuroanatomic changes after off-pump versus on-pump CABG: long-term follow-up of a randomized trial, 141(5), 1116-27.

Professional and Society Memberships

ASNR, ISMRM, RSNA, IEEE

Interested in

private practice jobs, academic jobs, teleradiology jobs, consulting offers, new ventures