UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
@ucsfimaging
Leading Imaging Innovation to Improve Health
Closing out #SNIS2026, @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Dr. Steven Hetts co-moderates a full day of didactic sessions with the University of Mississippi Medical Center's Dr. Allison Strickland, spanning anatomy, case-based learning, venous disease & more.
This afternoon at #SNIS2026, @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Dr. Steven Hetts moderates a session on complications & how to manage them, joined by NYU Langone Health's Dr. Charlotte Chung & the University of Mississippi Medical Center's Dr. Allison Strickland.
Dr. Minhao Zhou & colleagues published the first longitudinal study of bone quality changes in T2D, using HR-pQCT & DCE-MRI to track microarchitecture, vessel & perfusion changes over two years. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
CSF-venous disorders are getting fresh attention in neurointervention, & @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Matthew Amans opens that conversation this morning with a talk on the pathophysiology of venous hypotension at #SNIS2026.
Congratulations to Minjie Zhu, PhD, on receiving Summa Cum Laude honors at ISMRM 2026 for his research on treatment response assessment in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma using hyperpolarized 13C metabolic MRI. #UCSFProud
Closing out #AAPM26, @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Dr. Wenxuan Li presents AI-assisted pancreatic target delineation on CT in a scientific session, validated across multiple centers & paired with contouring quality checks. Coauthored with Drs. Kang Wang, Yang Yang & colleagues.
An integrated metric for assessing radiopharmaceutical dose-response and relative biological effectiveness, based on in vivo tumor growth. @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Dr. Robin Peter presents in a scientific session this afternoon at #AAPM26. Senior authors are Drs. Rob Flavell & Youngho Seo.
Foundation models are general-purpose #AI systems that can adapt across many imaging tasks, & they are one of the biggest talking points in the field right now. @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Dr. Yang Yang gives an invited talk on where they fit in medical imaging. #AAPM26
Today at #AAPM26, @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Dr. Mike Hoff examines how #AI is changing the MRI physicist's work, and asks whether it can augment the role itself.
Testing whether vision language models can read a glioma MRI, Dr. Bo Liu built a new benchmark from public multi-parametric MRI & health record data, with senior authors Drs. Janine Lupo & Hui Lin. Hear more from @Uucsfimaging.bsky.social this afternoon at #AAPM26.
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Dr. Kazim Narsinh brings his work on selective internal radiation therapy to #SNIS2026 this afternoon, as part of a session on how neurointervention fits into tumor care.
This afternoon, @ucsfimaging.bsky.social's Dr. Mike Hoff co-moderates a session on the past, present & future of MRI safety for patients with active implanted devices. #AAPM26
For 25 years, Dr. David Saloner has led UCSF's Vascular and Cardiac Research Center, advancing work on atherosclerosis, aneurysm & stroke. Read his reflections on discovery & mentorship. radiology.ucsf.edu/news/researc...
Please join us in welcoming the diagnostic radiology residents who started July 1. Their training spans medical schools in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Minnesota, Maryland & more. We're excited to have them join the department! #UCSFProud
Drs. Dan Cooke, Kazim Narsinh & senior author Dr. Ethan Winkler mapped 19 cell types in brain artery walls, showing how fibrosis & immune cells interact to weaken vessels before an aneurysm ruptures. bit.ly/4eUWL8q
Congratulations to Dr. Marc Kohli on receiving the SIIM Gold Medal at the society's annual meeting in Pittsburgh, pictured here with UCSF colleagues Dr. John Mongan & Dr. Neil Singh.
Happy Fourth of July from all of us at @ucsfimaging.bsky.social! Wishing our community a safe & fun holiday weekend.
Congratulations to Devin Schoen on receiving an NIH F99/K00 Pre-doc to Post-doc Transition Fellowship from NIBIB. The fellowship will support the end of her PhD at UCSF/UC Berkeley & her postdoctoral research on multimodal predictive models for neurological disease. #UCSFProud
Congratulations to Ankush Bajaj, MD, this year's ZSFG Krevans Award recipient! The award recognizes first-year UCSF residents who demonstrate excellence in patient care. #UCSFProud
Congratulations to Yifan Cui, PhD, #postdoc scholar in Evans Lab, on winning 1st place in the ERF RPSC Young Investigator Awards Symposium at @snm-mi.bsky.social for "Prolonging the Therapeutic Window with Fe-Reactive Small-Molecule Radioligands."
Join us June 29 for the T32 Trainees Lecture featuring #ChiefResidents Drs. Eric Lopez & Michael Romano. Event details: radiology.ucsf.edu/events/t32-t...
Dr. Joseph Leach sees blood vessels the way he sees music, complex, layered & full of information. The 2026 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician researches how abdominal aortic aneurysms grow & change, mapped in full 3D. Meet Dr. Leach: radiology.ucsf.edu/news/joseph-...
Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Gersing who received a 2026 RSNA Research & Education Foundation Research Seed grant for her work on AI-enabled MR muscle biomarkers and their role in low back pain!
Congratulations to Dr. Anil Bidkar on receiving the 2026 Mars Shot Research Fund – Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award at @snm-mi.bsky.social, presented alongside his mentor, Dr. Rob Flavell. #UCSFProud
Congratulations to #postdoc Tamara Vasilkovska on three honors at #ISMRM26. Magna Cum Laude recognition plus first-place awards in two groups for her research on metabolic changes in Alzheimer's disease models. #UCSFProud
The stria of Gennari is one of the only cortical structures visible in a living brain on MRI. A new study co-authored by Dr. Emil Barkovich finds that 7T MRI detects it more frequently & more clearly than standard 3T. Read the full paper in #JMRI: doi.org/10.1002/jmri...
Congratulations to Michael Romano, MD, PhD, recipient of the 2026 RSNA Roentgen Ray Research Award, recognizing outstanding residents & fellows who have advanced radiologic research. Well deserved!
Brain injury patterns after pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary by patient age, imaging timing, and arrest characteristics. New research in @theajnr.bsky.social from Drs. Jonathan Shih & Yi Li describes these patterns and what drives them. ➡️ doi.org/10.3174/ajnr...
Juneteenth is a day of celebration & honest reflection. At @ucsfimaging.bsky.social, we honor Black history & hold ourselves to the work of building a department where equitable care & representation are real, not just stated values. Happy Juneteenth!