(Image courtesy of Mark Riesenberger)
State-of-the-art CT scans taken by Dr. Rebecca Fahrig are featured in the exhibit "Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine" at the Legion of Honor, one of the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco. Her scans were used in constructing a three-dimensional "fly through" movie of the anatomy of the 2,500-year-old mummy of the Egyptian Priest Iret-net Hor-irw. Chris Beaulieu, MD, PhD, chief of musculoskeletal imaging in the Department of Radiology, also lent his expertise in determining the anatomy of the mummy's musculoskeletal structure.
According to a recent article in Stanford Medicine News, "Stanford Scans of Mummy to be Featured in San Francisco Museum Exhibition," visitors will
be able to watch "visual navigations through the mummy’s anatomy, zooming in to inspect what remains of his internal organ systems and then swooping back out through the wrappings. It’s even possible to see objects, such as small amulets, buried with the mummy and hidden from view since its burial." ]]>
Dr. William Kuo was recently featured in a Stanford Medicine News article and national press release entitled "Study Reveals Life-Saving Treatment for Pulmonary Embolism." Dr. Kuo discussed the results from his study published in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (20(11):1431-1440). Analyzing global data regarding the use of catheter-directed therapy for massive PE, he and his colleagues discovered that the therapy was life-saving in 86.5% of the 594 cases they studied. Dr. Kuo published his findings along with co-authors Lawrence Hofmann, MD, associate professor and chief of cardiovascular-interventional radiology; Daniel Sze, MD, associate professor of radiology; John Louie, MD, assistant professor of radiology; Jarrett Rosenberg, PhD, statistician; and Michael Gould, MD, associate professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine. The full Stanford press release can be accessed here: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2009/october/embolism.html.]]>
To treat children with bone tumors, our Chief of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging at LPCH, 
Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor of radiology and bioengineering, was appointed the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Endowed Professorship in Cancer Research in June of 2009. At Stanford, he leads several large NCI-funded programs and serves as chief of the Nuclear Medicine Division; director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS); and head of the new Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection. To read more about his selection for this endowed professorship, please access Stanford University news at http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june17/med-endow-061709.html.
Kim Ko joined our Department on August 24, 2009, as our new human resources administrator. Born and raised in O'ahu, Hawai'i, Ms. Ko moved to California a few months ago. "I knew I always wanted to move to the Bay Area," she said. "So, I was really excited when this opportunity to work at Stanford came up. There are certain comforts of home that I miss, of course, like my family and friends, but I'm really excited to begin this new chapter in my life."
Dr. Gary M. Glazer has been named the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Gold Medalist, which is the Society’s highest honor. As an RSNA Gold Medalist, Dr. Glazer is a member of a very select group of individuals who have deeply impacted radiology and the imaging sciences. At the forefront of research in cancer staging breakthroughs, he has profoundly influenced the science of using cross-sectional imaging in lung cancer staging and noninvasive tissue characterization of liver and adrenal tumors. His most recent investigations are in noninvasive cancer therapy monitoring and image-guided tumor insonification.
Dr. Do (on left) 
developed his project, "A Natural Language Processor to Detect Uncertainty and Recommendations in Radiology Reports," under the mentorship of 
Kim Butts Pauly, PhD, associate professor of radiology and of Bioengineering (by courtesy), was recently elected to the board of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) for a period of three years. The ISTU is a non-profit organization "founded in 2001 to increase and diffuse knowledge of therapeutic ultrasound to the scientific and medical community, and to facilitate the translation of therapeutic ultrasound techniques into the clinical arena for the benefit of patients worldwide." Dr. Butts Pauly's current research interests are focused on image-guided minimally invasive therapies, including MR-guided high intensity focused ultrasound and MR-guided cryoablation. She has published her work in over 75 peer-reviewed publications. When Dr. Butts Pauly is not working, she enjoys gardening, traveling with her family, and reading with her kids.
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) and radiology, was one of four Stanford scientists to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Transformative R01 Award designed to "support exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research projects that have the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms."
Arundhuti Ganguly, PhD, research associate in the Radiological Sciences Laboratory (RSL), received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award for her research proposal entitled "High Performance CMOS Based X-Ray Detector for C-Arm CT Imaging." The objective of this award is to "prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on health-related research." Her proposal aims to improve image-guided interventions for the treatment of stroke by using a novel solid-state X-ray detector, which is based on CMOS technology that will allow faster imaging at an increased resolution. Dr. Ganguly plans to use the detector in conjunction with a conventional angiographic C-arm system to provide high frame rate projection images as well as 3D image volumes. Beginning in June of 2009, this grant will enable Dr. Ganguly to complete two years of mentored research with Professor Rebecca Fahrig, followed by three years of independent research. ]]>