For many, saving small amounts of money here and there over time can make a significant difference in their financial future. According to James R. Duncan, MD, PhD, professor of radiology, the same is true with radiation exposure in children.

The journey of interventional radiology is defined not by destinations but by the paths traveled. Procedures that once required surgery, sutures, scars, hospitalizations and lengthy recoveries can be completed via a brief trip to an IR suite, followed by a bandage and good night’s sleep at home.

It’s a conundrum that every neurosurgeon faces. Remove too little tumor and you decrease a patient’s chance for survival. Damage healthy tissue near a critical brain function and the patient may incur neurological deficits, impacting his or her ability to see, speak and move.

Preliminary results of the Imaging Dementia – Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) trial are in, and they’re better than anticipated, says Barry Siegel, MD, professor of radiology at MIR and a member of the study’s steering committee. “We met our first target.”

Investigators who use the Center for Clinical Imaging Research (CCIR) and the East Building MR Facility can expect greater scheduling flexibility and advanced imaging capabilities thanks to two new MRI scanners and a major upgrade to an existing unit.

Jennifer Nicholas, MD, MHA, has always been drawn to teaching and a sense of fair play. Before attending medical school, Nicholas was a bilingual elementary school teacher in South Central Los Angeles. During her residency, she taught basic ultrasound skills to primary care physicians in Nicaragua and in a rural clinic in Kenya.

Sandra Ruhs, MD, is the director of the women’s imaging department at Diagnostic Imaging Associates in Des Moines, Iowa. The practice’s mammography department has been named one of the “Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence” through the ACR since July 2013. Ruhs, who was instrumental in launching a new multidisciplinary clinic for women’s health in 2017, relishes radiology’s vantage point across the medical spectrum.

Thirty years ago, in the name of scientific research, Marcus Raichle, MD, professor of radiology and neurology, left the comforts of home and the MIR Tower to climb the frigid peaks of the Karakoram Range in Southeast Asia. He flew to London and traveled with the Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society to Islamabad, Pakistan.