Research Opportunities

Research projects suitable for medical students and residents.

FACULTY SPONSOR	RESEARCH PROJECTS	LOCATION
Richard Breiman richard.breiman@radiology.ucsf.edu	Applications of 3D image processing and display techniques (including stereoscopic 3D) in medical diagnosis, education, simulation of medical procedures, and intra-operative guidance. Goals of this work include the development of medical student and postgraduate teaching and simulation modules and serious games using 3D image processing and display techniques, interactivity, haptics/force feedback and tissue deformation modeling. Techniques for the development of online teaching modules, including multi-disciplinary teaching files and remote accessibility of lectures, lessons and other educational materials. Development of techniques for disease surveillance in remote areas, without conventional web access, including remote portions of Africa and Asia. Applications of these techniques to the delivery of educational materials to 3rd world medical providers. CT cholangiography in the assessment of biliary disease and living related liver donors. CT assessment of the complications of endoluminal stent grafts for the repair of aortic aneurysms.	UCSF Parnassus
Ben Yeh ben.yeh@radiology.ucsf.edu	Development of new CT contrast agents. Development of new applications for CT contrast materials. Evaluation of bowel by CT. Improvement of CT technique for clinical imaging. Alterations in tumor perfusion in response to treatment. Living donor evaluation for liver and kidney transplantation. Radiological mimics of disease. Mesenteric lymph node and implant detection. Erdheim Chester disease in the abdomen (Medical Student) Vascular shunts. Digital Radiography teaching file.	UCSF Parnassus
Fergus Coakley fergus.coakley@radiology.ucsf.edu	Significance of adrenal nodularity or prominence. Accuracy of CT in the diagnosis of cirrhosis. MRI and MRSI of recurrent prostate concer after radiation.	UCSF Parnassus
Aliya Qayyum aliya.qayyum@radiology.ucsf.edu	SPIO Pseudocirrhosis MRSI of Brachytherapy treatment failure	UCSF Parnassus
William Dillon bill.dillon@radiology.ucsf.edu	Stroke Research CT – Angio Research	UCSF Parnassus
David Saloner saloner@itsa.ucsf.edu	Comparison of in-vivo MR characterization of atherosclerosis with histo-pathologic evaluation of carotid specimens. Validation of Contrast-enhanced MR angiography methods.	VA
Jim Barkovich jimb@radiology.ucsf.edu	Imaging of Neonates using spectroscopy, diffusion, and studying brain development.	UCSF Parnassus
Gautham Reddy gautham.reddy@radiology.ucsf.edu	Cardiovascular MRI Funding available from RSNA – Medical student grant ($3000)	UCSF Parnassus
Judy Yee judy.yee@radiology.ucsf.edu	Computer Aided Detection of Colorectal Masses. Comparison of Barium enema, Virtual Colonoscopy and Colonoscopy. Contrast-enhanced Virtual Colonoscopy – Is there increased sensitivity and specificity for lesion detection? Development of a “prepless” version of Virtual Colonoscopy Extracolonic findings on Virtual Colonoscopy. Performance of Multidetector CT using low dose protocol Comparison of 3D rendering techniques for Virtual Colonoscopy Translucency view for distinguishing types of colonic polyps. Perforemance3 of VC in a Screening Population-ACRIN. CD ROM on Virtual Colonoscopy – to work with Hanh Do Ryan Automated quantification of lumenal distention on human data sets. CT Angiography vs Angiography for endovascular aortic stent-grafts Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with advanced liver disease CT Angiography of Visceral Vessels CT Angiography of Lower Extremity Vessels. Peliosis hepatis CT of Renal arteriovenous malformation	VA 3D Imaging Lab
Virginia Griswold Virginia.Griswold@med.va.gov	Bone loss in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases (mostly HIV) using DEXA scans.	VA
Robert Brasch Robert.brasch@radiology.ucsf.edu	Studies of radiation dose to children from CT scanning using pediatric phantoms and new models of CT equipment. New studies to examine optical imaging and fluorescent contrast media for examination of breast cancers (in rats) - at least six months required. Create a digital pediatric teaching file.	UCSF Parnassus
Sharmila Majumdar Sharmila.majumdar@radiology.ucsf.edu	Studies characterizing bone and articular cartilage using advanced imaging techniques. Studies of osteoporosis using magnetic resonance imaging and stage of the art micro CT imaging.	UCSF and UC Berkeley
Srikantan Nagarajan srikantan@sbcglobal.net	Training studies to examine plasticity in auditory and somatosensory cortex. Somatosensory and motor cortical network activation dynamics. Mapping eloquent cortex and comparisons with intraopertive recordings. Studies of perception of affective components of speech. Neural imaging of auditory feedback during speech. Auditory and somatosensory processing in autism. Multiscale imaging of auditory and somatosensory cortex in monkeys. Integration of multimodal functional brain imaging such as MEG, fMRI, DTI, and ECoG.	UCSF Parnassus MSI Lab
Orit A. Glenn orit.glenn@radiology.ucsf.edu	Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of fetal MRI for brain abnormalities Evaluating the motor pathways in children with motor dysfunction using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging. Fetal MRI in the evaluation of prenatally diagnosed isolated mild ventriculomegaly Evaluating the prognostic value of fetal MRI Development and application of advanced fetal MRI techniques	UCSF Parnassus
Susan Noworolski sue@mrsc.ucsf.edu	MRS of the liver for studying fatty liver disease and effects of diet. Quantification of MRI volume changes in the liver and visceral fat. Semiautomatic versus manual delineation of the prostate on MRI and correlations with pathology.	UCSF Parnassus MRSC or UCSF China Basin Landing Center for Molecular Functional Imaging
Max Wintermark Max.Wintermark@radiology.ucsf.edu	Stroke CT and MR imaging research, including perfusion-CT. CT imaging of intracranial aneurysm. CT imaging of vasospasm. CT and MRI evaluation of carotid atherosclerotic diseases. Correlation of carotid and coronary artery imaging. CT and MR imaging of cerebral venous thrombosis.	UCSF Parnassus
Allan Bloom Allan.Bloom@radiology.ucsf.edu	To investigate the “retrievability” of two competitive commercially available inferior vena cava filtration devices, both of which are currently in everyday use at UCSF. The project involves construction of a protocol, submission of CHR applications, recording of data and subsequent analysis for publication.	UCSF Parnassus VA Medical Center San Francisco General Hospital
Heike Daldrup-Link daldrup@radiology.ucsf.edu	Investigation of new, targeted, fluorescent dyes for a specific detection of neuroblastomas in mice with optical imaging. Non-invasive tracking of natural killer cells to tumors with optical imaging.	China Basin