University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2021

New NIH R01 for PET/MR to Study Brain Aging in Epilepsy!

Dr. McMillan, along with Associate Professor Vivek Prabhakaran were awarded an R01 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The title of the project is “PET/MR Correlates of Accelerated Aging in Chronic Epilepsy.”

New Paper Published on Simultaneous Cardiac PET/MR

Dr. Alan McMillan was a co-author on a new paper published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine entitled ‘Dynamic FDG PET Imaging to Probe for Cardiac Metabolic Remodeling in Adults Born Premature’ that studies simultaneous PET and MR imaging of the heart in a population of adults born prematurely. Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10061301

New Paper Published on Simultaneous Breast PET/MR

MIMRTL team members Dr. Samuel Hurley and Dr. Alan McMillan were co-authors on a new paper in Radiology: Cancer Imaging entitled ‘Measuring Glucose Uptake in Primary Invasive Breast Cancer Using Simultaneous Time-of-Flight Breast PET/MRI: A Method Comparison Study with Prone PET/CT’ that compares quantitative PET findings in simultaneous PET/MR and prone PET/CT of the breast. …