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The Cooper Union, New York, NY
University of Miami, Miami, FL
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
University of Wisconsin, Madison (Abdominal Imaging)

Dr. Kelcz received his BS from The Cooper Union in New York, NY; MD at the University of Miami in Miami, FL; Radiology residency at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN and Abdominal Imaging Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. Dr. Kelcz received his PhD in Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin and worked as a physicist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center before deciding to obtain his Medical Degree. He then entered the Radiology Residency at the University of Minnesota and returned to Wisconsin for fellowship training in Abdominal Imaging. Dr. Kelcz is a member of the Abdominal Imaging Section and also rotates into the Breast imaging section. His chief research interests lie in MRI applications. Dr. Kelcz initiated the breast MRI clinical and research program at the University of Wisconsin. His current research projects includes the Evaluation of the Added Value of Advanced Methods for Breast MRI Diagnosis The aim of this study is to determine if several new methods for doing breast MRI can more reliably tell a benign from a malignant finding than the MRI method that is currently being used clinically. It is hypothesized that the following four advanced techniques will increase the specificity of breast MRI compared to diagnosis based on conventional dynamic contrast enhanced techniques:

1. PR-TRICKs with higher temporal resolution at the start of the scan (for pharmacokinetic calculations)
2. MR Spectroscopy (to evaluate metabolites, choline)
3. Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) imaging (oxygen levels may vary between solid malignant and benign lesions, no difference between in situ cancer and normal tissues), and
4. Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) (restricted diffusion in malignant tumors).