Radiology
The Vanderbilt Department of Radiology combines today’s leaders in radiological sciences, cutting edge research and the most advanced technology within an environment of innovation, curiosity, diversity and collaboration. We are focused on making imaging advancements for the betterment of our patients, our trainees and the future of radiological sciences.
Recent Submissions
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(Scientific Reports, 2022-12-17)IOTA (International Ovarian Tumor Analysis) Simple Rules classifies adnexal masses as benign, malignant, or indeterminate based on sonographic features. We seek to determine if IOTA inappropriately directed women to surgery, ...
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(AAPM, 2022-07)Task Group Report 126 was created to summarize acceptance testing and quality assurance tests for PET/CT systems. There are very few specialized phantoms in this report but one is a phantom that places points sources in ...
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(Medical Physics, 2022)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate a 3D-printed nuclear cardiac phantom to create a low cost, user-friendly phantom for perfusion imaging that is easily implemented with modern cardiac SPECT systems. This ...
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(Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2019-04)Purpose: This study aims to test the ability of quantitative temporal diffusion spectroscopy (qTDS) to assess cellular changes associated with radiation-induced cell death in a rat glioma model. Methods and Materials: ...
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(Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2020-02)Purpose:: Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a state-of-the-art quantitative MRI technique with a computationally demanding reconstruction process, the accuracy of which depends on the accuracy of the signal model ...
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(European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2020-09)Purpose To assess the impact of baseline liver tumour burden, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) elevation, and target lesion size on treatment outcomes with Lu-177-Dotatate. Methods In the phase 3 NETTER-1 trial, patients with ...
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(Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2019-10-10)Purpose: NRG Oncology's RTOG 0933 demonstrated benefits to memory preservation after hippocampal avoidant whole-brain radiation therapy (HA-WBRT), the avoidance of radiation dose to the hippocampus (using intensity modulated ...
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(Maganetic Resonance in Medicine, 2020-09)Purpose Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) is an MRI technique sensitive to the presence of low-concentration solute protons exchanging with water. However, magnetization transfer (MT) effects also arise when ...
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(NMR in Biomedicine, 2020-02)Skeletal muscle phosphorus-31 P-31 MRS is the oldest MRS methodology to be applied to in vivo metabolic research. The technical requirements of P-31 MRS in skeletal muscle depend on the research question, and to assess ...
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(Neuroimage, 2020-02-15)The objective of this study was to investigate whether phonological processes measured through brain activation are crucial for the development of reading skill (i.e. scaffolding hypothesis) and/or whether learning to read ...
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(HEPATOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS, 2019-07)The accumulation of excess fat in the liver (hepatic steatosis) in the absence of heavy alcohol consumption causes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which has become a global epidemic. Identifying metabolic risk ...
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(SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2019-07-02)Imaging apoptosis could provide an early and specific means to monitor tumor responses to treatment. To date, despite numerous attempts to develop molecular imaging approaches, there is still no widely-accepted and reliable ...