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Publications by UW Radiology Faculty Finalized in September 2024

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Carroll, Melissa B.; Fels Elliott, Daffolyn Rachael; Kanne, Jeffrey P.; Martin Rother, Maria Daniela. Update on Pulmonary Fibrosis: Updates to Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, and Other Emerging Topics in Interstitial Lung Disease. Advances in Clinical Radiology. 2025 Sep; 6(1):253-267.  Chapman, Teresa; Swanson, Jonathan O. Transient soft tissue enhancement mimicking subcutaneous emphysema and pneumoperitoneum. Pediatric Radiology. 2024 …

UW Radiology faculty present at PET/MRI workshop offered by ISMRM and SNMMI

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UW Department of Radiology’s faculty played pivotal roles in the PET/MRI workshop hosted in collaboration with the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) in October 2023.  Alan McMillan, PhD presented at and co-chaired the workshop, which was for clinicians, researchers, staff, technologists and students …

Senator Baldwin Tours WIMR to Promote Wisconsin as a Tech Hub

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On Wednesday, August 30, 2023, Senator Tammy Baldwin visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus. In her tour of the facilities, she visited the UW–Madison Cyclotron lab, Radiopharmaceutical Production Facility, WIMR PET Imaging Center, and the Photon Counting CT Scanner. This visit is part of an effort to …

ML4MI Initiative Fosters Interdisciplinary Collaboration at UW-Madison

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Machine learning (ML), a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science, is an emerging field which uses algorithms to analyze and draw inferences from patterns in data. ML and AI approaches are the basis of sensational innovations – like self-driving cars or ChatGPT – as well as something as familiar as Netflix’s recommendation engine. …

UW Department of Radiology Ranked #11 in 2022 by Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research

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The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) recently released their 2022 ranking of institutions, departments, and principal investigators by the funding they received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Radiology was ranked #11 with over $15 million in NIH funding, matching its #11 ranking in 2021.  A …

What We Published This Month (December 2022)

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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 …

Drs. Vivek Prabhakaran, Alan McMillan, and Veena Nair Receive NIH-NIA Funding for Delirium and Dementia Study

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UWSMPH Department of Radiology Associate Professor Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Alan McMillan, PhD, and Senior Scientist Veena Nair, PhD, are co-Is on a multidisciplinary 5-year project that recently received $3.6 million NIH-NIA R01 funding. The project, led by UW Department of Anesthesiology’s Assistant Professor Robert Sanders, MD, PhD, will clarify the overlapping pathology …