Dr. Oto's proposal on "Microscopic Distribution of Gadolinium and Vanadium in Murine Prostate Cancer" has been approved for funding by the Prostate SPORE grant executive committee. The proposal is aiming to investigate a novel contrast agent for detection of prostate cancer in a mouse model and determine the distribution of gadolinium within normal prostate gland and in prostate cancer. The award is $ 50,000 and for one year.

Congratulatios to our faculty and residents on their abstracts accepted for the ARRS Annual Meeting! Continue on to the next page to view the list of accepted abstracts.

Cum Laude award granted at RSNA 2011. This is a joint work of UCMC and Northshore. Education Exhibit at RSNA 2011 entitled: Axillary Imaging and the Current Status of Axillary Staging in Breast Cancer: What the Imager Should Know. Authors: J S Ecanow, MD, H Abe, MD; G M Newstead, MD; D B Ecanow, MD; J M Jeske, MD. ID of the presentation: LL-BRE3146-SUA

Congratulations to Steffen Sammet, MD, PhD, MS, DABR who's proposal for a Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Award has been accepted. The award is $75,000, to be awarded in two installments. The goal of the Young Investigator Awards is to enable promising young investigators to initiate successful scientific careers.

Liver volumetry study by Kenji Suzuki, M.S., Ph.D. in collaboration with Drs. Richard Baron, MD, FACR and Aytekin Oto, MD was featured in the article "Software automates CT liver volume measurements" on AuntMinnie.com

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Congratulations to Rina Patel, Brent Greenberg, Steve Montner, Alex Funaki, Chris Straus, Steve Zangan and Heber MacMahon for their award winning exhibit at the recent UCMC Quality Fair, entitled: Reduction of Voice Recognition Errors in Radiological Dictation: Effects of Systematic Individual Feedback”

Kevin Little, a fourth-year student in the Graduate Program in Medical Physics, won second place in the student paper competition at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference held Oct 23-29 in Valencia, Spain. Kevin's paper was entitled, "Sinogram Restoration in Computed Tomography with a Non-Quadratic, Edge-Preserving Penalty."