BODY RIG Research

1) Multiparametric Prostate MR program (12 patients a week). 

2) Liver MR: for diffuse disease and dietary intervention studies.

3) Body Rig-integrate advance PET and MR imaging for the real time guidance biopsies in treatment and to this end we have been using an  FDA-approved direct MR guided biopsy device that allows for improved identification characterization prostate cancer in individual patients. 

4) Focused Ultrasound recently obtained with NIH funding a device that allows real-time guidance high-intensity focused ultrasound for focal thermal treatment a number of diseases. 

5) MicroPEt/Ct images of PSMA expression in prostate tumors: Development of a new PET imaging agent