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Interventional Radiology (IR) is rapidly increasing in terms of the types of procedures and the volume of cases. The growth of this field is evidenced by the new residency training program for this specialty. As IR requires proficient technical skills in interventions, assessment of those skills is...

Many decisions that general clinicians need to make daily are based on a risk assessment of different clinical (medical or surgical) interventions relative to the risk of non-intervention. We have a program for developing imaging protocols to better assess risk for patients in several clinical...

Lymphedema is caused by the accumulation of lymphatic fluid in the interstitial space due to impaired clearance, from congenital causes (primary) or infection, trauma, or medical/surgical treatments (secondary), resulting in (sometimes severe) swelling of the extremities. Visualization and...

Acute pancreatitis may be the initial clinical presentation of pancreatic cancer. However, since the vast majority (approximately 98%) of acute pancreatitis is due to other causes (e.g. alcohol, gallstones), pancreatic cancer is generally not pursued as a possible etiology unless a mass is...

Vertebral fractures are a risk associated with bone metastases in a large range of cancers, with potentially debilitating consequences. While therapeutic interventions exist to reinforce the bone to prevent such fractures, it is currently difficult to evaluate a given patient for level of fracture...