Recent Research Work by Radiology Residents at
University of Massachusetts Medical School

  • Phillips D, Shaikhly H, Kim D, Goel (Garg) A:  Long term patency of arterial branches when their origins are covered by a wall stent.  Accepted for oral and poster presentation at the Society of Interventional Radiology, March 2003.
  • Nguyen BT, Balikian J, Umali-Torres C, Desai C:  Mass-like talc granuloma simulating neoplasm on CT and F18 FDG coincidence PET imaging.  Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association of University Radiologistrs, Miami, FL, April 9-13, 2003
  • Kim YH, Blake MA, Harisinghani M, Archer-Arroyo K, Hahn P, Mueller PR:  Adult intestinal intussusception:  CT appearance and identification of causative lead point.  To be presented at the 90th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the RSNA, Chicago, IL, November 28-December 3, 2004
  • Kim YH, Ji H, Mehta AS, Anderson M, Barish M, Kandarpa K:  Atlas of normal and variant vascular 3-D anatomy in the abdomen with multi-detector row CT.  To be presented at the 90th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the RSNA, Chicago, IL, November 28-December 3, 2004
  • Kim YH, Lam M, Shankar S, Hegarty J, Ji H, Stafford S:  Diagnostic pitfalls in liver MR imaging in fatty liver and fat containing lesions.  To be presented at the 90th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the RSNA, Chicago, IL, November 28-December 3, 2004
  • Choi DJ, Shankar S, Stachurski D, Banner B. Non-neoplastic, hyperdense, enhancing renal mass: CT findings with pathologic correlation. American Journal of Roentgenology 2005;184:1597-9.
  • Choi DJ, Wallace EC, Fraire AE, Baiyee D. Best cases from the AFIP: intrarenal teratoma. RadioGraphics 2005;25:481-5.
  • Dey J, Pan T, Smyczynski M, Pretorius PH, Choi DJ, King MA. Investigation of Respiration Motion of the Heart Based on Semi-automated Segmentation and Modeling of Cardiac-CT data, In IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, Puerto Rico, Oct. 2005
  • Dey J, Pan T, Choi DJ, Smyczynski M, Pretorius PH, King MA. Knowledge-based segmentation of the heart from respiratory-gated CT datasets acquired without cardiac contrastenhancement. To be presented at the Medical Imaging conference of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), San Diego, CA, February 11-16, 2006.


In progress

  • Singh A, Levenson R, Gervais D, Hahn P, Mueller P. Dropped gallstones and dropped surgical clips after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: CT assessment.
  • Levenson R, Singh A. Fournier's Gangrene. To be submitted to the ARRS annual meeting in May 2006.
  • Kim YH, Choi DJ, Jaiswal S, Kim D. Long-term follow-up after uterine artery embolization for symptomatic uterine leiomyomata.
  • Choi DJ, Rao S, Kim D. Use of a stent-graft to treat renal artery stenosis and post-stenotic aneurysm caused by fibromuscular dysplasia.