Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS) Archive — Page 4 of 6

Patient table entering a brightly illuminated medical imaging scanner, viewed head-on with vivid green, blue, and red lighting.
June 14, 2017

PET imaging to predict tumor response

A PET probe that detects the amino acid glutamine predicts whether tumors respond to certain targeted therapies in preclinical animal models.

Six researchers stand in a laboratory in front of a large MRI scanner, with a stylized yellow-and-black emblem behind them. From left: Pai-Feng Yang, Feng Wang, Ruiqi Wu, Zhaoyue Shi, Li Min Chen, and John Gore.
May 25, 2017

Study finds common brain scanning technique maps electrical activity as precisely as more invasive methods

A commonly used brain scanning technique can map electrical activity under the skull as precisely as more invasive methods that rely on probes or electrodes, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) reported this month.

Portrait of a man in a dark blazer and light blue shirt standing outdoors among flowering plants.
April 27, 2017

Abramson to lead new Department of Radiology innovation program

Richard Abramson, M.D., will engage in creative program development as the Department of Radiology’s first Vice Chair for Innovation.

Three men pose in front of a classroom chalkboard: John Gore on the left, Roderic Pettigrew in the center, and André Churchwell on the right.
March 9, 2017

Pettigrew lecture

Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., right, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health, poses for a photo with Vanderbilt’s John Gore, Ph.D., left, and André Churchwell, M.D., following his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.

September 22, 2016

New prostate cancer therapy investigated at VUMC

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the world’s first site to treat a patient in the TULSA-PRO Ablation Clinical Trial (TACT), which employs an emerging therapy that uses MRI guidance and robotically driven therapeutic ultrasound to obtain precise prostate cancer tissue ablation.

Multiple blue-toned sagittal MRI scans of the human brain arranged together, with white technical labels overlaid.
January 25, 2016

Using MRI to assess myelin health

Vanderbilt investigators report an improved model for estimating brain health, using MRI.