This just in: The Punahou prep school of Honolulu grooms not only politicians like Barack Obama or entrepreneurs like AOL cofounder Steve Case. It may well be nurturing the future of radiology. More »

Jeffrey Luci, Ph.D., would be the first to admit he is having a busy year. Having attained a faculty position at Vanderbilt University at the end of his National Institutes of Health research fellowship, the former University of Iowa chemistry grad student is now immersed in preparations for his... More »

When Jiangyang Zhang, Ph.D., picked up his Research Trainee Prize from RSNA 2005, the former biomedical engineering student was on a temporary research contract at the Johns Hopkins University radiology department. This September, his status will be upgraded to that of assistant professor. While the... More »

Though an MR scanner is hardly cuddly, it could become a baby’s best friend. Or so Christopher Looney would say. More »

Last year, an obese women in New York City claimed that her doctor suggested she go to the Bronx Zoo for an MRI because of her girth. Zoo officials, according to the New York Post, later said they had no elephant-sized MR machines onsite. More »

Once Dr. Andrew Hines-Peralta resolved the problem of how to percutaneously cook large liver tumors, he undertook a more pressing challenge: remodeling his condo. More »

When Dr. Salwa Haidar picked up her $1000 award from the RSNA last year, she promptly bought gifts for her four children and her husband. He and the three oldest children had come with her from Kuwait to the University of Toronto while Haidar completed her fellowship. The youngest child was born in... More »

The tools were as tiny as the subject mice. But the brightly fluoresced colon cancer cells brought huge smiles to the faces of investigators at the Center for Molecular Imaging Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. More »

In the continual struggle between humans and machines, it seems that machines hold an edge because of their ability to crunch large databases without tiring and to produce accurate analyses. Dr. Khan M. Siddiqui knows otherwise. More »