Dr. Michael Evans and his colleagues at UCSF recently published a study that suggests carefully designed PET scans can be used to provide important biological information in place of biopsy.
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Many people who rise to department management in medicine have little prior experience with administration. This wasn’t the case with Ronald Arenson, MD, former chairman of UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging.
The lecture, titled “Reflections on My Academic Career in Neuroimaging: From Headaches to Facets and Parts in Between," will be held June 8th, 2016 at the Mission Bay Campus, located at 600 16th Street in San Francisco.
Lisa Rooney, a member of the CT or CAT radiology team, works closely with patients during their kidney tumor ablation, among other procedures, ensuring safety and accuracy are maximized, while giving the patient the best possible experience.
Visionary Bioengineering: The Radiologic Imaging Laboratory Archive focuses on the critical years when UCSF researchers, physicians, and engineers created MRI.
Some patients with kidney tumors have a high risk of surgical complications because of their age or health status. For those patients, kidney tumor ablation offers a promising alternative to nephrectomy. Ablation is a nonsurgical procedure that is effective with small tumors.