UW Hospital and Clinics has been named a Designated Lung Cancer Screening Center by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center designation recognizes facilities that have committed to practice safe, effective ...
December 31st, 2015 UW Radiology is proud to introduce our new research image request form, located in the research section of our website. This new form will streamline requests, replacing the manual process previously used by the department. Instead of making initial ...
December 18th, 2015 UW Radiology continued its success at the annual meeting of the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA), the largest medical conference in the world. The 2015 edition of the conference was marked by nearly 50 awards for UW posters or ...
December 2nd, 2015 UW is a nationwide leader in microwave ablation, thanks to the efforts of the Tumor Ablation Lab. Led by Fred. T. Lee Jr, M.D., and Christopher Brace, Ph.D., the lab has produced full-fledged ablation systems, dozens of patents, and a spinoff company...
December 1st, 2015 A standing-room-only crowd was eager to hear Donna Blankenbaker, M.D., speak on one of her favorite subjects: hip imaging. Dr. Blankenbaker began with an overview of the labrum, noting that the high density of nerve endings causes labral tears to be ...
December 1st, 2015 Engineer Dan van der Weide, left, and radiologist Fred Lee developed a new device that uses precisely focused microwaves to eliminate hard-to-treat tumors in patients with liver, lung and other cancers. When it comes to launching a successful ...
December 6th, 2017 With over 100 presentations this year, UW will have a large foothold at RSNA15. Read about some of our featured presentations below, or browse the official RSNA program here. (external link) Discordant Core Needle Biopsies: A Predictive Model that ...
November 26th, 2015 A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) has been awarded a 4-year $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop imaging techniques to identify early-stage ...
November 20th, 2015 A colon cancer diagnostic that only requires a small blood sample was one of two winners of the 2015 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award. Perry Pickhardt, M.D., lent his colon cancer screening expertise to a team led by ...
November 20th, 2015 Medical students recently had the opportunity to learn about a relatively unknown field of medicine during an event held at the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR). The UW Department of Radiology hosted the Interventional Radiology ...
November 20th, 2015