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Andreas Rauschecker, MD, PhD, describes the AI tools he has developed to diagnose and monitor neurological diseases and improve the MRI diagnostic accuracy of radiology trainees.

“UCSF takes MRI Safety very seriously. It is a priority,” says MRI Safety Officer and MRI Supervisor Christina L. Calvin. This MRI Safety Week, July 21-27, Calvin spotlights the three most important things patients need to know.

Susanne Mueller, MD, has developed a new method for imaging cortical layers of the brain, using MP2RAGE contrasts to follow the cortical myelination pattern within the gray matter.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), plays a pivotal role in healthcare, determining treatment paths and eligibility for procedures like hip or knee replacements. Yet, approximately 90% of the global population lacks access to this vital technology. The prospect of a more compact, affordable, and easily installable MRI machine raises an intriguing question: How many lives could be saved, and how much suffering could be alleviated with improved access to this transformative technology?

A decade ago, Thomas Link, MD, PhD, was senior author on a paper in J Bone Miner Res¹ that suggested that severe deficits in cortical bone quality are responsible for fragility fractures in postmenopausal diabetic women. Building on that work, our Bone Quality Research Lab has developed a technique to visualize intra-cortical vessels and assess the structural changes that can degrade bone strength.

On Wednesday March 14, the radiology team at Mount Zion Hospital celebrated the reopening of MRI Zone 3 room after a comprehensive space refresh.

The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awards diversity supplements to increase diversity in the research.

In another first for Green Radiology, the UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and Siemens Healthineers have shown how using sustainable strategies for device delivery can substantially reduce greenhouse gas production in the medical imaging community. Supply chain carbon emissions, together with device manufacturing and operation, represent the largest contributors to carbon emissions in medical imaging.

Amie Lee, MD, contributed an editorial to Radiology, the journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) titled "Nipple-sparing Mastectomy in the Era of Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy: The Accuracy of Preoperative MRI." Dr. Lee is an associate professor in the breast imaging division in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.

A team, including researchers from the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, investigated a new imaging tool for monitoring response to therapies in patients with glioblastoma (GBM).