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Focal therapy offers middle ground for some prostate cancer patients
Scott Eggener, MDMen with low-risk prostate cancer, detected early, used to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. They could choose aggressive treatment that stops the cancer but has the potential...
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MRI-Guided Procedure Tested As Non-Invasive Study Procedure For Uterine Fibroids
Aytekin Oto and Nathaniel Crump monitor the MRI-guided HIFU procedure with the rest of the team. On April 11, 2013, Kimberly Dull became the first woman in Illinois — and one of the first in the United...
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Age, Wisdom, Teeth
On November 19, 2013, a team from the University of Chicago Medicine performed an extremely high-resolution CT scan on the skull pictured above. The nearly new 256-slice scanner has been in clinical...
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Doing More With Less: A Radiologist Shares His Expertise in Nigeria
Steffen Sammet (fifth from left) with colleagues at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria Practicing medicine is hard enough under the best circumstances, with state of the art facilities...
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Two University of Chicago scientists named AAAS fellows for 2015
Two distinguished scientists and educators have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to...
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Pioneering radiologist Dr. John Fennessy, 1933-2016
John Fennessy, MB, BCh, a pioneer in the field of chest radiology, died Jan. 3, 2016, from complications following cardiac surgery in November 2015. He was 82. A professor emeritus and former chair of...
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New MR scanner opens door for imaging research
This past weekend, the University of Chicago welcomed the arrival of a new Philips Ingenia 3.0T Magnetic Resonance (MR) system, which was installed on the third floor of the University’s MRI Research...
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The cyclotron returns to UChicago Medicine (very carefully)
Whether it’s a 7-ton MRI magnet or a whole new scanner, moving a huge piece of equipment into a hospital takes some careful planning. A crew at UChicago Medicine recently took on one of its biggest...
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New cyclotron at UChicago jump starts imaging research
The 18 MeV IBA Cyclone is the only operational, academic medical cyclotron in Illinois. After nearly two decades, the University of Chicago has welcomed the return of a cyclotron research facility,...
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Richard L. Baron, radiologist and authority on diagnosis of liver disease,...
Richard Baron, MD Richard Baron, MD, a professor and former Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago, died suddenly from an apparent heart attack while playing tennis on...
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