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What We Published This Month (December 2022)

Liu, Y., Kornfield, R., Yang, E. F., Burnside, E., Keevil, J., & Shah, D. V. Patient-provider communication while using a clinical decision support tool: explaining satisfaction with shared decision making for mammography screening. (2022) BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 22 (1), pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.1186/s12911-022-02058-3.   Markus, N., Ross, A.B., Martin-Carreras, T.T. Congenital absence of the bilateral long heads of …

What We Published This Month (November 2022)

Nielsen, S., Narayan, A.K. Breast Cancer Screening Modalities, Recommendations, and Novel Imaging Techniques. (2023) Surgical Clinics of North America, 103 (1), pp. 63-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2022.08.004.  Melamud, K., Hindman, N., Sadowski, E. Ovarian-Adnexal Reporting and Data Systems MR Imaging: Nuts and Bolts. (2023) Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America, 31 (1), pp. 79-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2022.06.004.  Nishino, M., Bluemke, …

RSNA 2022 Highlights

The UW-Madison Department of Radiology was well-represented at the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA)’s Annual Meeting in Chicago from November 27 – December 1. The conference, which is the largest in the U.S. for radiology, featured a theme of “Empowering Patients and Partners in Care.”  Four of the Department’s faculty – David Bluemke, MD, PhD; Meghan …

UW Radiology Creates New Open-Access Radiology Health Equity Research Database

A team of health equity researchers within the Department of Radiology has developed a powerful new tool for researchers, educators, and clinicians. The Radiology Health Equity Research Database is a publicly available, searchable database containing over 250 articles on racial health equity in radiology. The resource will streamline research efforts, paving the way for future work to …

UW Radiology Installs Generation 3 Silicon-Based Photon Counting Scanner

The collaborative relationship between UW Radiology and GE Healthcare continues to spur on innovation in radiology. In the newest chapter of this partnership, beginning in November 2022, a prototype deep silicon photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) scanner will be evaluated at the Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research (WIMR). This technology has the potential to improve both spatial …

Pickhardt and Lubner’s Research Featured on Cover of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence

Perry Pickhardt, MD and Meghan Lubner, MD’s research, “Fully Automated and Explainable Liver Segmental Volume Ratio and Spleen Segmentation at CT for Diagnosing Cirrhosis,” was featured on the cover of the September 2022 edition of Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Pickhardt and Dr. Ronald Summers served as senior authors.  Dr. Pickhardt said, “We were delighted to see that our work was highlighted. We …

Erica Knavel Koepsel Creates iMRI Program

Erica Knavel Koepsel, MD is no stranger to innovation in the field of interventional radiology at UW-Madison. She has been a Badger since medical school, where she was mentored by Fred Lee, MD, a nationwide leader in ablation. Through his mentorship, Dr. Knavel Koepsel gained an interest in Radiology. She went on to complete her Diagnostic Radiology …

Scott Perlman Received Approval from the FDA for the Clinical Use of 18F-Fluorocholine PET/CT in Patients with Parathyroid Adenomas 

Scott Perlman, MD, MS recently received approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use 18F-Fluorocholine to improve detection and localization of parathyroid adenomas that had previously been difficult to localize. Dr. Perlman and the Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging resident Josiah Magnusson, MD collaborated with a cross-disciplinary team, including Department of Surgery Chief …

Scott Reeder & Diego Hernando Receive R01 Grant

Scott Reeder, MD, PhD and Diego Hernando, PhD recently received an R01 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their project, “Fully Automated High-Throughput Quantitative MRI of the Liver.” The team was granted nearly $1.5 million in direct costs and a total award of $2.1 million to …