Lei Sun

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Lei Sun is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Sun has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 60 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lei Sun's work include Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography (52 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (48 papers) and Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (33 papers). Lei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography (52 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (48 papers) and Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (33 papers). Lei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Lei Sun's co-authors include Weibao Qiu, Zhihai Qiu, Xiaochen Xu, Shashwati Kala, Xuandi Hou, Kin Fung Wong, Jinghui Guo, Yanyan Yu, K. Kirk Shung and Jiejun Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Lei Sun

168 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 contributes to ultrasound neuromodulation
    2023 82 citations Jiejun Zhu, Quanxiang Xian et al. profile →

Peers

Lei Sun
Weibao Qiu China
Lili Niu China
Yi Qi United States
Long Meng China
Hong Chen United States
Irina V. Larina United States
Kang Kim United States
Vyacheslav I. Kochubey Russia
Dan Zhu China
Elina A. Genina Russia
Weibao Qiu China
Lei Sun
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Countries citing papers authored by Lei Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lei Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lei Sun. The network helps show where Lei Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lei Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lei Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lei Sun. Lei Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Chen, Jiamin, et al.. (2025). PDL1 Gene Gain Predicts an Unfavorable Prognosis in HIV-Positive Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma. Current Oncology. 32(7). 378–378. 1 indexed citations
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Naydenov, Nayden G., Atif Zafar, Susana Lechuga, et al.. (2025). The septin cytoskeleton is a regulator of intestinal epithelial barrier integrity and mucosal inflammation. JCI Insight. 10(22). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Ziyue, Qiang Yu, Dongli Chen, et al.. (2025). Dual-modal super-resolution ultrasound and NIR-II fluorescence imaging of ischemic stroke with ICG-doped porous PLGA microspheres. Materials Today Bio. 31. 101513–101513. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Qiang, Wenjie Liang, Rong Liu, et al.. (2024). An adaptive spatiotemporal filter for ultrasound localization microscopy based on density canopy clustering. Ultrasonics. 144. 107446–107446. 2 indexed citations
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Wagner, Andrew J., Jonathan C. Trent, Steven Attia, et al.. (2024). Peak part 1 summary: A phase 3, randomized, open-label multicenter clinical study of bezuclastinib (CGT9486) and sunitinib combination versus sunitinib in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(16_suppl). 11533–11533. 1 indexed citations
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Ding, Derui, et al.. (2024). Privacy-Preserving Distributed Optimization for Economic Dispatch Over Balanced Directed Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 1362–1373. 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, Derui Ding, Hongli Dong, & Xiaojian Yi. (2024). Distributed Economic Dispatch of Microgrids Based on ADMM Algorithms With Encryption-Decryption Rules. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 22. 8427–8438. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, et al.. (2023). A New technology of transformer bushing state detection based on transient dielectric response. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2450(1). 12030–12030. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Lei, et al.. (2023). Paradigms as second-order schemas in English noun-participle compounding. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 21(2). 542–575. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dandan, Lei Sun, Zihao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Alpha-lipoic acid supplementation reverses the declining quality of oocytes exposed to cyclophosphamide. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 181. 114090–114090. 8 indexed citations
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Shi, Hexin, Lei Sun, Ying Wang, et al.. (2021). N4BP1 negatively regulates NF-κB by binding and inhibiting NEMO oligomerization. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1379–1379. 30 indexed citations
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Song, Lin, Xuandi Hou, Kin Fung Wong, et al.. (2021). Gas-filled protein nanostructures as cavitation nuclei for molecule-specific sonodynamic therapy. Acta Biomaterialia. 136. 533–545. 36 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuang, Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao, Dan Wei, et al.. (2021). Complete genome sequencing and comparative genome analysis of the extremely halophilic archaea, Haloterrigena daqingensis. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. 69(4). 1482–1488. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Shisan, Fangjing Xie, Li Tian, et al.. (2020). Estrogen accelerates heart regeneration by promoting the inflammatory response in zebrafish. Journal of Endocrinology. 245(1). 39–51. 35 indexed citations
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Qiu, Zhihai, Shashwati Kala, Jinghui Guo, et al.. (2020). Targeted Neurostimulation in Mouse Brains with Non-invasive Ultrasound. Cell Reports. 32(7). 108033–108033. 88 indexed citations
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Jo, Javier A., Qiyin Fang, Thanassis Papaioannou, et al.. (2006). Diagnosis of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaques by Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Ultrasound Imaging. PubMed. 2006. 2663–2666. 5 indexed citations

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