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Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
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Co-Medical Director, Yale University PET Center

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Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Co-Medical Director, Yale University PET Center

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Education & Training

Residency
Yale New Haven Hospital (2010)
PhD
Johns Hopkins University (2007)
Internship
Greater Baltimore Medical Center (2006)
Research Fellowship
Johns Hopkins Hospital (2001)
MD
National Taiwan University School of Medicine (1996)

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Diagnosis; Health Care; Neoplasms; Nervous System Diseases

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Frequent collaborators of Ming-Kai Chen's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

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Overview

Ming-Kai Chen, MD, PhD, is a radiologist in the Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and co-medical director of PET Center. He has special expertise in nuclear medicine—a type of imaging that uses radioactive materials to detect and treat disease—as well as oncologic molecular imaging, which is used to take detailed imagines of the body at a cellular level to detect and monitor cancer.

“With the advance of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging,” Dr. Chen says, “we often can detect the disease at an early stage (and detect more metastatic disease) compared to convention diagnostic imaging.”

Dr. Chen, an associate professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at Yale School of Medicine, is conducting research and a clinical trial about the use of PET imaging for synaptic density in the Alzheimer’s disease.

“We hope this new PET imaging could provide early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and serve as a reliable biomarker for the evaluation of treatment response,” he says.

Clinical Specialties

Medical Oncology; Nuclear Medicine; Neuroradiology; Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

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Radiology & Biomedical Imaging

PO Box 208042

New Haven, CT 06519

United States

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