Department of Radiology
Dev Joshi was awarded the Best Resident Research Day Research Award at the Department of Surgery’s Resident 2023 Research Day for his work on “Quantitative digital histological analysis and comparison to proton density fat fraction in patients undergoing weight loss surgery.”
Andrea and Garrett both received the 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program! This nationally competitive award provides support for 3 years of graduate study. Andrea and Garrett are the first from QIML & LIRP to receive the GRFP. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dr. Hernando for winning the Vilas Faculty Early-Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievements, and Dr. Hernando’s important to the missions of the School of Medicine and Public Health, and the Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, through $100,000 over 3 years to support Dr. Hernando’s research.
Congratulations to Rianne for being chosen as a 2023 ISMRM Junior Fellow! Selection is based on past contributions and society service, as well as future potential for outstanding achievements to the field of magnetic resonance. Rianne will be presented with the award on June 5 at 2023 ISMRM meeting in Toronto. You can also find …
Ruiqi Geng is a finalist for the Young Investigators’ Award at the 2023 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Toronto, ON, Canada for her work on automated MR image prescription of the liver using deep learning. This work had also previously been highlighted in a JMRI editorial. Ruiqi will be presenting this work …
A new consensus paper based on literature review and an expert panel led by Dr. Scott Reeder reviews evidence for different MRI-based liver iron quantification methods with consensus recommendation for a confounder-corrected R2*-based approaches. Reeder SB, Yokoo T, França M, Hernando D, Alberich-Bayarri Á, Alústiza JM, Gandon Y, Henninger B, Hillenbrand C, Jhaveri K, Karçaaltıncaba …
Liver iron concentration (LIC) is directly correlated with total body iron. R2* MRI enabled accurate and reproducible quantification of liver iron overload over clinically relevant ranges of liver iron concentration (LIC). The data generated in this study provide the necessary calibrations for broad clinical dissemination of R2*-based LIC quantification. Hernando D, Zhao R, Yuan Q, …
Congratulations to Ruiyang for successfully defending his dissertation titled Development and Validation of Novel Quantitative MRI Techniques in Liver. Ruiyang will be joining GE Healthcare in Houston. Here are a few of the already published papers based on Ruiyang’s work: Zhao R, Hamilton G, Brittain JH, Reeder SB and Hernando D. Design and evaluation of quantitative MRI …
It was a busy year for the LIRP and QIML groups at ISMRM. In addition to all the scientific and educational talks, Jitka and Thekla were selected as ISMRM Junior Fellows and Scott Reeder began his term as President of ISMRM. Congratulations everyone!