Radiology in Biological News

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology increases impact, international reach

... Va.The Journal of Vascular and Interventional radiology 's quality and influence has remained ... rise in its impact, the Society of Interventional radiology is now offering an International Affiliate ... "The Journal of Vascular and Interventional radiology 's achievements extend well beyond the ...

Avoiding hysterectomy: Major interventional radiology E-collection info available

... the first time, the Society of Interventional radiology has assembled a major electronic collection of ... The Journal of Vascular and Interventional radiology "virtual" collection allows health care ... relevant information about the interventional radiology treatment in one convenient place," explained ...

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology: New patient radiation safety guidelines

... FAIRFAX, Va."Society of Interventional radiology 2009 Standards Division Guidelines" is the ... of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional radiology . SIRa national organization of physicians, ... management guideline, tailored to interventional radiology practice, emphasizes the need for increased ...

Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation awards $191,000 in grants

... FAIRFAX, Va.The Society of Interventional radiology Foundation recently awarded 13 grants totaling ... to encourage the development of interventional radiology research. Grant proposals were reviewed during ... contribute to the advancement of interventional radiology research. The SIR Foundation grant program is ...

Interventional radiology: From sidelines to mainstream for patients

... Va. (May 12, 2009)The Society of Interventional radiology hailed the extension of an American College of radiology resolution in support of clinical patient ... and supports the establishment of interventional radiology clinical services within the practice ...

AIUM presents 2009 Memorial Hall of Fame awards

... the University of Chicago in 1955. He completed radiology training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and was chief of radiology at Lincoln Hospital, part of the same university, ... an attending radiologist and professor of radiology at various institutions throughout his career. He ...

AIUM presents 2009 William J. Fry Memorial Lecture award

... Kurtz, MD, currently serves as a professor of radiology at Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson ... Education Committee of the American College of radiology (ACR) from 1987 to 1993 and did the primary work ... medical student education for the Department of radiology at Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson ...

Oh baby, interventional radiology makes childbirth safer

... Calif. (March 10, 2009)Innovative, interventional radiology treatments are making childbirth safer for women ... Annual Scientific Meeting. "Interventional radiology is making childbirth safer. Severe bleeding ... Embolization is a well-established interventional radiology technique that blocks blood vessels, controlling ...

Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumors

... a safe minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment that kills the cancer 100 percent ... studies highlight how effective interventional radiology treatments can benot just for kidney cancerbut ... and other diseases as well. Interventional radiology treatments will have a significant impact on the ...

Society of Interventional Radiology hosts 34th annual scientific meeting

... The Society of Interventional radiology (SIR) will present the latest research on ... Highlights of embargoed key interventional radiology studies being presented are listed below. ... for pain medications increases. An interventional radiology treatment can bring relief to individuals who ...

Pivotal national trial uses newest interventional radiology treatment to bust blood clots in legs

... recognized the strong potential of interventional radiology clot removal treatments for DVT to improve public ... School of Medicine's Mallinckrodt Institute of radiology in St. Louis, Mo. ATTRACT (Acute Venous ... is critical. The Society of Interventional radiology Foundation initiated a DVT research consensus ...

Stent grafts: a better way to treat blunt trauma injuries

... the director of vascular and interventional radiology at Dartmouth Medical School. "This minimally invasive interventional radiology technique can decrease the death rate by half and ... blood to the spinal column. The interventional radiology treatment does not interrupt the blood supply. By ...

PET/CT imaging proves golden for detecting cancer in children

... cancers, explained the Hopkins professor of radiology and oncology. Using PET/CT could help spare ... in the Russell H. Morgan Department of radiology and Radiological Science. When there were ... Mitsuaki Tatsumi, nuclear medicine division, radiology department, and John H. Miller, pediatric ...

Interventional treatment can be recommended as first-line treatment for 'silent killer'

... 2009)Endovascular or endograft repair, a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment that uses stent grafts to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms ... them to annual radiation. "Our data show that the interventional radiology treatment can be chosen with confidence. This is good news for patients, ...

Oh, my aching back: Give me a shot of ozone

... SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 9, 2009)A minimally invasive interventional radiology treatmentthat safely and effectively uses oxygen/ozone to relieve the pain ... spine is like a complex electromechanical system. And the interventional radiology oxygen/ozone treatment takes a minimalist approach. It's all about being ...

Metastatic bone disease patients can walk in Lazarus' footsteps

... encourage more widespread application of this palliative interventional radiology treatment," said Giovanni C. Anselmetti, M.D., interventional radiologist ... imaging. The technique is similar to vertebroplasty, an interventional radiology treatment that has been used extensively in the spine to treat the pain of ...

European Multidisciplinary Conference on Thoracic Oncology

... Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the European Society for Therapeutic radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and ... Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the European Society for Therapeutic radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and ...

Register now for the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting

... presentations and posters covering the newest trends in interventional radiology research nearly 150 technical exhibits and product demonstrations opportunity to interview experts in interventional radiology Some of the exciting topics that will be featured at this year's news ...

New technique images tumor vessel leakiness to predict breast cancer chemotherapy outcome

... treatments. In a study published in the February issue of the journal radiology , researchers describe a technique for determining the "leakiness" of ... on this study with Ioannis Sechopoulos, an assistant professor in radiology at Emory University; Andrew Karellas, a former professor in the Emory ...

University of Miami biomedical engineer

... at the University of Miami College of Engineering and professor of radiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has received a grant ... College of Engineering, with a secondary appointment in the Department of radiology at the Miller School of Medicine. He works in conjunction with the ...

MSU researcher studies ties between cholesterol drugs, muscle problems

... deterioration is underestimated, said Jill Slade, assistant professor of radiology and osteopathic manipulative medicine at MSU. "Statins work by ... Slade will use nuclear magnetic resonance imaging at the MSU Department of radiology Exercise and Nutrition Lab to measure muscle integrity and function before ...

MU scientists go green with gold, distribute environmentally friendly nanoparticles

... is smarter and stronger than humankind," said Kattesh Katti, professor of radiology and physics in MU's School of Medicine and College of Arts and Science, ... a large amount of prestige to our research group, the Departments of radiology and Physics, the MU Research Reactor Center and the overall research and ...

Improved foam for varicose veins found to be safe in preliminary results from phase II trial

... D.C., at the annual scientific meeting of the Society of Interventional radiology (SIR). Injectable foams are usually made by mixing a sclerosant, an ... M.D., clinical director of the Interventional Section in the Department of radiology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Veins in the leg have ...

Yale receives $8.4 million to study DNA repair in cancer cells

... said the lead researcher, Peter Glazer, M.D., chair of therapeutic radiology and leader of the radiobiology research program at Yale Cancer Center. ... design of new cancer therapies. Patrick Sung, professor of therapeutic radiology and of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, will focus on the repair ...

A crystal ball for brain cancer?

... are most likely to benefit from Avastin before starting a single dose of treatment. The findings are published in this month's issue of the journal radiology . "Avastin is an expensive drug, yet only 50 percent of patients with recurring brain cancers respond to it," said lead author Dr. Whitney Pope, ...

New MRI technique could mean fewer breast biopsies in high-risk women

... with jagged edges can signal cancer. To generate the kind of crisp, three-dimensional images necessary for such a diagnosis, Block, UW-Madison radiology associate professor Fred Kelcz and graduate student Catherine Moran are capitalizing on their unique MRI data-acquisition method. An MR image is ...

Lithium may help radiation target cancer, spare healthy tissue

... following radiation-induced damage. Working with Eddy Yang, M.D., Ph.D., a resident in the Radiation Oncology department and an American Board of radiology Holman Research Scholar, and postdoctoral research fellow Hong Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Xia and colleagues examined DNA repair in lithium-treated mouse ...

Personalized treatment for early lung cancer

... Conference on Thoracic Oncology is organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the European Society for Therapeutic radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS). ...

AIUM presents 2009 Distinguished Sonographer award

... and gynecologic sonographer at Edmond Renaissance Physicians in Edmond, Oklahoma, as well as a weekend prenatal sonographer at the Department of radiology of Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Her work as an educator, including curriculum and program development, has earned her several ...

Cancer Genomics Browser gives cancer researchers a powerful new tool

... To get a user's perspective on the browser as it took shape, Haussler's team worked closely with Dr. Laura Esserman, professor of surgery and radiology at UC San Francisco, and Marc Lenburg, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Esserman and ...

Promising 3-year data: Saving limbs with drug-eluting stents

... tiny infrapopliteal arteries of the leg may significantly impact their care," said Dimitris Karnabatidis, M.D., assistant professor of interventional radiology at Patras University Hospital in Rion, Greece. "Drug-eluting (or drug-coated) stents have emerged as a potential solution to the limitations of ...

Freezing prostate cancer does a man's body good

... SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 9, 2009)The so-called "male lumpectomy"a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for prostate canceris as effective as surgery in destroying diseased tumors and can be considered a first-line treatment for patients of ...

Scientists can predict nano drug outcome

... Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University also participated in the study, which appears in the February issue of radiology . The investigators used contrast agents encapsulated in tiny fat bubbles called liposomes to determine if breast tumors in rodents could be ...

NARSAD announces 2008 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Research on Mental Health Disorders

... two scientists for their individual contributions: Charles L. Bowden, M.D., Nancy U. Karren Clinical Professor and professor of pharmacology and radiology at University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, has focused his research mainly on the symptomatic and biological characterization of ...

2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowships announced

... Japanese physicians and scientists have studied nuclear medicine in the United States," said Henry Wagner, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and radiology at John Hopkins University. "This fellowship is a step toward ensuring that this outstanding cross-cultural relationship will thrive far into the ...

Penn presents inaugural symposium on applied mathematics and computational science

... scattering, finance and condensed matter physics. Additional information is available from Charles L. Epstein, professor of mathematics and of radiology in mathematics and graduate group chair of AMCS, at cle@math.upenn.edu . ...

NIH extends commitment to transformative research with 2008 Pioneer, New Innovator Awards

... to the right place at the right time within cells. Erik M. Shapiro, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine assistant professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering, who will use cellular and functional magnetic resonance imaging to aid in the development of novel strategies for ...

Syntermed licenses Emory ERTb software for enhanced cardiac imaging

... Saturday, Sept. 13. "SPECT studies are a critical part of diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease," says Garcia, who is a professor of radiology at Emory University School of Medicine. "As software imaging technologies continue to improve, diagnosis becomes increasingly detailed and accurate. ...

Protecting those who heal

... Society of Interventional Cardiologists (SOLACI) in Bogota, Colombia. The study is being led by a team of experts, including Prof. Eliseo Vano, radiology Department of the Complutense University of Madrid; Prof. Norman Kleiman, Columbia University, New York; local ophthalmologists from Bogota; and Mr. ...

W.M. Keck Foundation grant funds reproductive science research

... NUANCE Center (Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental Center), and Jonathan Silverstein, M.D., associate professor of surgery and radiology at the University of Chicago Medical Center and associate director of the university's Computation Institute. Dravid's expertise lies in advanced ...