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Faculty Spotlight: Veena Nair

Veena Nair, PhD joined the Clinical Imaging Physics section as a professor (CHS) in 2025. Prior to her faculty appointment, she worked in the department as a scientist for a decade.   Dr. Nair attended Old Dominion University for her master’s in psychology and University of South Carolina for her graduate fellowship and doctorate in …

What We Published in November and December 2023

Andrieu P.C., Nikolovski I., Juluru K., Sadowski E., Gangai N., Zheng J., Capanu M., Praiss A.M., Nougaret S., Shinagare A.B., Ma W., Torrisi J.M., Sonoda Y., Chi D.S., Lakhman Y. Synoptic Reporting for Pretreatment CT Examination in Patients With Advanced Ovarian Cancer: Impact on Documentation of Disease Sites and Physician Satisfaction. (2023) American Journal of Roentgenology. Campos …

What We Published This Month (October 2023)

Buchanan M.E., Markhardt B.K. Systematic review of techniques in cartilage imaging. (2023) Journal of Cartilage and Joint Preservation, art. no. 100155.  Daudé P., Roussel T., Troalen T., Viout P., Hernando D., Guye M., Kober F., Confort Gouny S., Bernard M., Rapacchi S. Comparative review of algorithms and methods for chemical-shift-encoded quantitative fat-water imaging. (2023) Magnetic Resonance in …

What We Published This Month (September 2023)

Breast Imaging  Bevers, T.B., Niell, B.L., Baker, J.L., Bennett, D.L., Bonaccio, E., Camp, M.S., Chikarmane, S., Conant, E.F., Eghtedari, M., Flanagan, M.R. and Hawley, J. NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, Version 1.2023: Featured Updates to the NCCN Guidelines. (2023) Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 21(9), pp.900-909.  Peterson, M.S., Gegios, A.R., Elezaby, …

What We Published This Month (August 2023)

Abdominal Imaging and Intervention  Geng, R., Buelo, C.J., Sundaresan, M., Starekova, J., Panagiotopoulos, N., Oechtering, T.H., Lawrence, E.M., Ignaciuk, M., Reeder, S.B., Hernando, D. Automated MR image prescription of the liver using deep learning: Development, evaluation, and prospective implementation. (2023) Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.28564.  Lubner, M.G., Marko, J., Hu, R., Kawashima, A., Potretzke, T.A., …

What We Published This Month (July 2023)

Abdominal Imaging and Intervention  Liu, C.-Y., Noda, C., van der Geest, R.J., Triaire, B., Kassai, Y., Bluemke, D.A., Lima, J.A.C. Sex-specific associations in multiparametric 3 T MRI measurements in adult livers. (2023) Abdominal Radiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00261-023-03981-3.  Mukherjee P., Lee S., Elton D.C., Nakada S.Y., Pickhardt P.J., Summers R.M. Fully Automated Longitudinal Assessment of Renal Stone Burden on …

A New Screening Tool for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia

Led by Vivek Prabhakaran, MD, PhD, a group of researchers at UW-Madison are investigating ways to generate synthetic positron emission tomography (PET) images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. By developing a reliable method to “translate” MRI images into certain types of PET images, the group hopes to cut down on the cost and risk for the …

What We Published This Month (September 2022)

Lee, M.H., Zea, R., Garrett, J.W., Graffy, P.M., Summers, R.M., Pickhardt, P.J. Abdominal CT Body Composition Thresholds Using Automated AI Tools for Predicting 10-year Adverse Outcomes. Radiology (2022). Toia GV, Zamora D, Singleton M, Liu A, Tan E, Leng S, Shuman WP, Kanal KM, Mileto A. Detectability of Small Low-Attenuation Lesions With Deep Learning CT Image Reconstruction: …

Veena Nair & Nagesh Adluru Receive Their First R01 Grant

Veena Nair, PhD and Nagesh Adluru, PhD received their first R01 grant awarded as Principal Investigators from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and National Institute on Aging (NIA) for their project, “Stroke connectome MRI biomarkers for vascular contributions to cognitive impairments and dementia (VCID) risk assessment.” The team was awarded $3.5 million to be used over a 5-year …

What We Published Last Month (December 2021)

Schreiter, N.A., Swietlik, J., Woods, M., Kleedehn, M. Inferior vena cava syndrome caused by postoperative positional changes in the liver. Clinical Imaging, 83, pp. 16-20. (2022).   Johnson, E.M., Martin, M.D., Sharma, R., Meyer, C.A., Kanne, J.P. Blastomycosis: The Great Pretender. Journal of Thoracic Imaging, 37 (1), pp. W5-W11. (2022).  Ubah, O.C., Lake, E.W., Gunaratne, G.S., Gallant, J.P., Fernie, M., Robertson, A.J., Marchant, J.S., …