Team members from MIMRTL (Bahar, Jake, Sam, Bruce, Alan) recently published an article in the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology entitled “Subject-specific, Non-invasive Helmet-restraint RF Coil for Awake, Non-human Primate MR Imaging.” This work describes the development of radiofrequency (RF) coils for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that are developed …

Congrats to the team for 100% success on ISMRM abstract submissions. This includes Bahar (2x) for her abstracts “Rapid Material Characterization For 3D-printed MRI Coils: A Deep Learning Approach” and “Traveling-Wave Excitation for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging”; Maribel for “Functional MRI-based Deep Learning Classification between Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients and Healthy Controls”; Wei-jie for “Low …

Dr. McMillan gave an educational presentation at the 2019 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Mid-Winter Meeting in Palm Springs, California on January 19th 2019. The talk, entitled “What is Machine Learning? What is Deep Learning? Applications to Nuclear Medicine” provided an overview on deep learning, the specific problems it can help solve …

Alan McMillan, PhD, was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Radiology, as an Associate Editor in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics. New members of the Editorial board are peer reviewers for Radiology, and are published authors. Dr. McMillan’s expertise stems from his work as a Lab Director of the Molecular …

Alan McMillan, PhD, an Associate Professor of Clinical Health Sciences in the UW Department of Radiology, was recently awarded a four-year, $1.84 million grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for research to study “Improved Techniques for Substitute CT Generation from MRI …

Christian Park, a fourth year medical student working with Dr. Alan McMillan, has been selected for a Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Medical Student Research Grant. The grant is for the project “Ultra Low Dose PET/MRI Imaging of Crohn’s Disease using a novel Deep Learning Reconstruction Method.” RSNA has established this grant to, “increase the …