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Cryoablation for Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)
Less invasive approach helps treat patients with renal tumors. There are over 50,000 new cases of RCC diagnosed each year in the United States. Many of these masses are detected on routine imaging performed for other reasons. There has been increasing interest in...
Stroke Triage using Artificial Intelligence (AI):
Interdisciplinary team approach to improve stroke care by applying AI to imaging. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Morbidity is high, with over half of stroke victims left chronically disabled. Dr. Jennifer Soun, an Assistant Professor in...
High-resolution MRI of the wrist with 3T MRI:
State-of-the-art imaging of wrist ligaments MSK section at Department of Radiological Sciences at UCI Medical Center is providing state-of-the -art high-resolution MRI of the wrist. This advanced imaging that uses 3T MRI scanners includes isotropic 3D fast spin echo...
ECG Gated CT of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Planning
Teamwork between cardiothoracic radiologists, interventional cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) is percutaneous placement of prosthetic aortic valve under angiographic guidance. It is considered useful for patients...
UCI Radiology Newsletter – Autumn 2020
A Message from the Chair Click image to access Radiology Newsletter Our subspecialist diagnostic and interventional radiologists are essential to our multidisciplinary team approach to patient care at UCI. As the only academic radiology department in Orange County,...
Targeting the Invisible by using Advanced Imaging in Interventional Radiology
PET scans and contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have improved lesion detection but definitive diagnosis and/or molecular profiling still requires biopsy specimens. These procedures are performed with ultrasound and computed tomography guidance. The...
An Innovative Approach to Prostate Cancer Imaging
Recent data suggests that 1 in 9 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime and one in 45 men will die from the disease. While diagnosis, management and treatment of these patients have improved over the past decade, there is much more that needs to...
All Hands (and machines) on Deck: How UCI is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help with COVID-19
In July 2018, Drs. Peter Chang and Daniel Chow founded the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine (CAIDM) with the support of UCI’s School of Medicine and its Radiological Sciences Department. The vision has been to develop, validate, and deploy...