University of Wisconsin–Madison

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New NFL $4 Million Grant Awarded to Study Hamstring Injuries!

Dr. McMillan and Dr. Hurley are co-investigators in a recently NFL founded groundbreaking international research on hamstring injuries. The objective of this study is to use multimodal MRI imaging to better characterize hamstring injuries in athletes, improve recovery time, and come up with preventive measurements (read Channel 3000’s news article here).

MIMRTL Welcomes our New Summer Students!

Jacob Fuchs (he/him) Email: jtfuchs@wisc.edu Twitter: @JacobFuchs17 LinkedIn: Jacob Fuchs Hometown: Ellsworth, WI Lab Position: Medical Student Academic Program: Doctor of Medicine (MD) Student, UWSMPH Research Topic: Organ segmentation of PET/CT scans by deep learning program to identify incidental findings. I am segmenting various organs (liver, aorta, T12-L5 vertebrae) in PET/CT scans to feed into …

Congratulations, 2021 Graduates!

Congratulations to recent graduates and MIMRTL lab members! Check out their post-graduation plans: Charles Hower Charles Hower graduated with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a Certificate in Computer Science. He is currently applying to medical school, and will be spending the next year working for the Wisconsin Health Corps. Eric Li Eric Li graduated …

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. …

New Paper Published on CT Synthesis from MRI using Deep Learning

MIMRTL team members Haley Massa and Dr. Alan McMillan published a new paper in Physics in Medicine and Biology entitled ‘Comparison of deep learning synthesis of synthetic CTs using clinical MRI inputs’ that studies the use different types of MRI input images to synthesize CT images. Link: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/abc5cb

New Paper Published on Lightweight MRI Coils for Improved PET Quality in Simultaneous PET/MR

MIMRTL team members Nick Mathew, Dr. Samuel Hurley, and Dr. Alan McMillan published a new paper in Radiology entitled ‘PET Image Quality Improvement for Simultaneous PET/MRI with a Lightweight MRI Surface Coil’ that demonstrates improved PET image quality utilizing lightweight AIR coils in comparison to conventional anterior array coils. Link: https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2020200967