News update:  Last time edited: 12/07/2011

• December 7, 2011 - Dr. Lara Leoni and her colleagues published the following article in Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging: Leoni L, Dhyani A, La Riviere P, Vogt S, Lai B, Roman BB. β-Cell subcellular localization of glucose-stimulated Mn uptake by X-ray fluorescence microscopy: implications for pancreatic MRI.  2011 Nov;6(6):474-81.

• October 4, 2011 - Dr. Milica Medved and her colleagues published the following article in Academic Radiology: Medved M, Fan X, Abe H, Newstead GM, Wood AM, Shimauchi A, Kulkarni K, Ivancevic MK, Pesce LL, Olopade OI, Karczmar GS. Non-contrast Enhanced MRI for Evaluation of Breast Lesions Comparison of Non-contrast Enhanced High Spectral and Spatial Resolution (HiSS) Images Versus Contrast Enhanced Fat-suppressed Images.  Acad Radiol. 2011 Sep 28.

• Sept. 20, 2011 - Dr. Xiaobing Fan and his colleagues published the following article in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging:
  Fan X, Haney CR, Agrawal G, Pelizzari CA, Antic T, Eggener SE, Sethi I, River JN, Zamora M, Karczmar GS, Oto A.
  High-resolution MRI of excised human prostate specimens acquired with 9.4T in detection and identification of cancers: Validation of a technique.  J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Oct;34(4):956-61.

• July 19, 2011 - We are pleased to inform you that Ms. Anita Dhyani and Ms. Elizabeth Hipp had their abstracts accepted for Oral Presentation at the 97^th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), November 27 - December 02, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois:

  (1) A Dhyani, MSc; P Vargas, MSc; X Fan, PhD; L Leoni, PhD; P J LaRiviere, PhD; B B Roman, PhD.  Glucose Induced Changes in MEMRI Contrast Tracks With Pancreatic β-cell Function In-Vivo.

  (2) Elizabeth Hipp, MSc;  X Fan, PhD; James Vosicky; A Partanen, MSc; S Sokka, PhD; C M Straus, MD; G S Karczmar, PhD.  MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Techniques to Create in Vivo Internal Fiducial Tattoos.

• June 8, 2011 - Dr. Abbie Wood is going to leave us at the end of this week.  She is taking a prestigious position as a radiation physics resident at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX.  We will miss her and wish her good luck and much happiness!

• May 19, 2011 - Dr. Sanaz (Sunny) Jansen and her colleagues published the following article in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging:
  Jansen SA, Shimauchi A, Zak L, Fan X, Karczmar GS, Newstead GM.  The diverse pathology and kinetics of mass, nonmass, and focus enhancement on MR imaging of the breast.  J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Jun; 33(6):1382-9.

• May 5, 2011 - Today Abbie successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation.  She is now officially Dr. Abbie M. Wood.  We wish her great success in her future scientific career.

• May 2, 2011 - The following two abstracts were accepted as oral presentations at the joint American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) meeting July 31 - August 4, 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
  (1) E Hipp, X Fan, A Partanen, G Karczmar.  "Using MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound to Study Heating Pattern Variations Due to Reflections From Interfaces in Both Thermal and Tissue Phantoms".
  (2) F Pineda, M Heisen, A Wood, D Mustafi, S Lobregt, B Peng, G Newstead, J Buurman, G Karczmar.  "Moving Towards Quantitative Breast MRI: Dynamic Contrast Media Concentration Images".

• April 26, 2011 - Dr. Sean Foxley is going to leave us at the end of this month.  He is taking a prestigious position as a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Oxford.  We will miss him and wish him good luck and much happiness!

• April 1, 2011 - We submitted a total of six abstracts to RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) this year.

• March 30, 2011 - Dr. Chad Haney and his colleagues published the following article in the journal of Molecular Imaging:
  Haney CR, Pelizzari CA, Foxley S, Zamora MA, Mustafi D, Tretiakova M, Li S, Fan X, Karczmar GS.  HiSStology: High Spectral and Spatial Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging Detection of Vasculature Validated by Histology and Micro-Computed Tomography. Mol Imaging. 2011 Mar 28.

• March 22, 2011 - We would like to congratulate Drs Gregory Karczmar (PI) and Suzanne Conzen (co-PI) for having been awarded funding for their R01 entitled “MRI of Early Non-Invasive Rodent Mammary Cancers”. This five year grant has been generously provided by the NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE.

• February 25, 2011 - Dr. Sanaz (Sunny) Jansen and her colleagues published the following article in the journal of European Radiology:
  Jansen SA, Lin VC, Giger ML, Li H, Karczmar GS, Newstead GM.  Normal parenchymal enhancement patterns in women undergoing MR screening of the breast.  Eur Radiol. 2011 Feb 17.

• January 31, 2011 - We have a total of five abstracts submitted by Ms. Anita Dhyani, Ms. Abbie Wood, Drs. Sean Foxley, Chad Haney, and Xiaobing Fan, that have been selected for presentation at the scientific sessions of the ISMRM 2011 Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada.  Out of five abstracts, one abstract from Ms. Anita Dhyani have been accepted as oral presentation:
  Dhyani AH, Fan X, Leoni L, and Roman BB. "Model for manganese dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI of passive and glucose-stimulated active pancreatic β-cell function".

• January 26, 2011 - Dr. Sanaz (Sunny) Jansen and her her colleagues published the following article in the journal of NMR in Biomedicine:
  Jansen SA, Conzen SD, Fan X, Markiewicz E, Krausz T, Newstead GM, Karczmar GS.  In vivo MRI of early stage mammary cancers and the normal mouse mammary gland.  NMR Biomed. 2011 Jan 25.