Department of Radiology Sections

Gary M. Glazer, M.D.
Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor in the Medical Sciences
Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology
Research Interest
Body imaging techniques; monitoring therapy of cancer, without biopsy; tissue characterization

Department of Radiology Sections:

ABDOMINAL IMAGING

300 Pasteur Drive, Room H1307

Stanford, CA 94305-5621

Faculty / Research Interest
R. Brooke Jeffrey, M.D.
Section Chief and
Vice-Chair, Department of Radiology
(650) 723-8463
/ Pancreatic MDCT; Thyroid ultrasound/biopsy; Virtual Colonoscopy; Imaging of appendicitis; Hepatic MDCT.
Mike Federle, M.D.
Associate Chair of Education
/ MDCT of abdominal trauma and acute abdomen. Imaging (especially CT) of hepatic and pancreatic masses. Innovative teaching materials for radiology and anatomy (print and electronic).
Bruce Daniel, M.D.
(650) 725-1812
/ MRI of Breast Cancer; MRI-guided interventions, MRI-compatible robotics, and MRI of the prostate.
Terry Desser, M.D.
(650) 725-1812
/ Imaging of gastrointestinal tract cancer; Ultrasound.
Aya Kamaya, M.D.
(650) 723-8463
/ Photoacoustic Imaging, gynecologic imaging, thyroid ultrasound and biopsy, US, CT and MR imaging of hepatic malignancies CT perfusion of abdominal malignancies Ultrasound artifacts
Robert Mindelzun, M.D.
(650) 723-8463
/ Abdominal imaging; Anatomy; Mesenteries; Peritoneum; Omentum; Pancreatic anatomy and embryology; Third World diseases; Abdominal trauma.
Matilde Nino-Murcia, M.D
(650) 493-5000
/ Gastrointestinal motility in spinal cord injury patients; Use of CT and MRI in imaging liver and biliary tree; Contrast agents for MRI of the gastrointestinal tract and hepatobiliary system; Gastrointestinal motility disorders; Abdominal imaging; Hepatobiliary imaging.
Eric Olcott, M.D.
(650) 493-5000
/ Abdominal imaging; Trauma; CT-urography.
Lewis Shin, M.D.
/ Application of real time MRI imaging in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA); Application of real time MRI imaging in evaluation of dyphagia; Magnetic Resonance Colonography - "The Other Virtual Coloscopy;” MRI - Diffusion Weighted Imaging in abdominal/pelvic applications.
Research opportunities (med scholars eligible) available for medical students.
F. Graham Sommer, M.D.
(650) 723-8463
/ High-intensity focussed ultrasound for tumor ablation under MR guidance, particularly prostatic and abdominal cancers; Multidetector CT urography; Renal function using CT and MRI; Improved tumor detection using diagnostic ultrasound.
Juergen Willmann, M.D.
650-725-1812
/ Development and translation of molecular imaging approaches in abdominal diseases.

BODY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Lucas MRS Center, 1201 Welch Road

(650) 725-4933

Faculty / Research Interest
Robert Herfkens, M.D.
Director, Body MRI
/ Imaging of myocardial diseases with magnetic resonance, Imaging and spectroscopy.
Bruce Daniel, M.D.
(650) 725-1812
/ MRI of Breast Cancer; MRI-guided interventions, MRI-compatible robotics, and MRI of the prostate.
Shreyas Vasanawala,
/ Development of new cardiovascular, abdominal, and musculoskeletal imaging techniques with a focus on pediatric MRI. Areas of interest include liver tumors, diffuse liver disease, and renal function. Approaches include novel MR pulse sequences, hyperpolarized imaging, and sodium MRI.

CARDIOVASCULAR AND THORACIC IMAGING

300 Pasteur Drive, Room S-072

Stanford, CA 95034-5105

(650) 723-7647

Faculty / Research Interest
Ann Leung, M.D.
Section Chief, Thoracic Imaging
Associate Clinical Chairman
(650) 725-0541
/ High-resolution computed tomography of the thorax, particularly its application in the setting of acute lung disease in the immunocompromised host; Quantitative assessment of abnormalities using spiral CT; minimizing radiation dose of CT exams.
Geoffrey Rubin, M.D.
Section Chief, Cardiovascular
/ Imaging atherosclerosis and other arterial diseases using CT; Improving radiologist detection of lung nodules with computer-aided detection, Cardiac CT. (see also Cardiothoracic Imaging section above)
Frandics Chan, M.D. Ph.D.
/ Cardiac imaging; Congenital heart disease.
Dominic Fleischman, M.D.
/ Volumetric CT of the cardiovascular system.

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

300 Pasteur Drive, Room H3630

Stanford, CA 94305-5642

(650) 725-5202

Faculty / Research Interest
Lawrence “Rusty”
Hofmann, M.D.
Section Chief
/ Image-guided therapies; Molecular interventions.
David Hovsepian, M.D.
/ Diagnosis and treatment of vascular malformations; Treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids using transcatheter embolization and MR-guided focused ultrasound; Quality and Safety in Radiology.
Gloria Hwang, M.D.
/ Image-guided therapies; Molecular interventions; Pancreatic Interventions; Percutaneous Ablations; and Image-guided Gene Therapies.
Nishita Kothary, M.D.
/ Many projects for students including case reports, pictorial essays, retrospective clinical studies.
Research interests: Image guided interventions in oncology, genetic fingerprinting of HCC.
William Kuo, M.D.
/ Catheter-directed therapy for acute pulmonary embolism; retrievable IVC filters; endovascular treatment of septic venous thrombosis; and embolotherapy for tumors.
John Louie, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
/ Image-guided therapies; interventional oncology.
Daniel Sze, M.D., Ph.D.
/ Transarterial administration of chemotherapeutics, radioactive microspheres, and biologics for the treatment of unresectable tumors; Stent and Stent-graft treatment of peripheral vascular diseases, aneurysms, aortic dissections; Percutaneous treatment of complications of organ transplantation; Treatment of complications of portal hypertension; Catheter-directed thrombolysis of arterial and venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

MAMMOGRAPHY

Stanford Advanced Medicine Center

875 Blake Wilbur Drive, Room 2234

Stanford, CA 94305-5826

(650) 723-8462

Faculty / Research Interest
Debra Ikeda, M.D.
Director of Breast Imaging
/ Breast cancer; breast imaging.

MUSCULOSKELETAL IMAGING

300 Pasteur Drive, Room S-056

Stanford, CA 94305-5105

(650) 725-8018

Faculty / Research Interest
Christopher Beaulieu, M.D., Ph.D.
Section Chief
/ Imaging and image-guided interventions in sports medicine. New acquisition and visualization methods for MRI and CT. Creation of computer based teaching materials.
Sandip Biswal, M.D.
/ Molecular imaging of Nociception and Inflammation. (See also MIPS below)
Garry Gold, M.D.
/ Rapid MRI for Osteoarthritis, weight-bearing cartilage imaging with MRI, and MRI-based models of muscle. New MR imaging techniques such as rapid imaging, real-time imaging, and short echo time imaging to learn more about biomechanics and pathology of bones and joints.
Kathryn Stevens, M.D.
/ Sports medicine imaging, arthritis, musculoskeletal applications of new MRI sequences.

NEURORADIOLOGY

300 Pasteur Drive, Room S-047

(650) 723-7426

Faculty / Research Interest
Scott Atlas, M.D.
Section Chief
/ Advanced MRI of the brain; Health care policy; The impact of technology-based medicine in US health care; Role of government in health care; Health care systems in emerging nations; Health care in China.
Patrick Barnes, M.D.
/ Pediatric Neuroradiology. (See Pediatric Radiology below)
Huy Do, M.D.
/ Percutanous vertebroplasty as a treatment for painful spinal compression fractures and extra-spinal injection of bone cement (PMMA) for pathologic and non-healing fractures; Cerebrovascular flow dynamics to understand aneurysm and plaque development, Developing medical devices and materials for acute stroke, atherosclerosis, aneurysm, AVM and tumor treatment.
Nancy Fischbein, M.D.
/ Imaging of head and neck disorders, Applications of diffusion and perfusion to head and neck cancer, applications of various diffusion methods to assessing temporal bone cholesteatoma, improved diffusion using reduced field-of-view for spinal cord assessment and assessment of ASL (arterial spin labeled) perfusion in patients with vascular disease of the brain.
Barton Lane, M.D.
(650) 493-5000
/ Imaging of head and neck disorders; Vertebroplasty for management of spinal compression fractures; imaging of the spinal cord and spine; treatment of vascular malformations and tumors of the head and neck.
Michael Marks, M.D.
/ Interventional neuroradiology; Cerebral arteriovenous malformations; Stroke treatment and imaging; Cerebral aneurysms.
Kristen Yeom, M.D.
/ My primary research interest is in clincal application of advanced MR imaging techniques in pediatric brain tumors. including diffusion, arterial spin labeled perfusion, and functional MRI. We are also interested in translating novel imaging techniques that probe physiologic tumor tissue characteristics.
Greg Zaharchuk, M.D., Ph.D.
/ Acute imaging of stroke (CT and MRI). Advanced MRI methods, including imaging of brain function, blood flow, and oxygen content. Advanced diffusion imaging of the spinal cord, spinal cord injury. Moyamoya disease.

NUCLEAR MEDICINE

300 Pasteur Drive, Room H0101

(650) 725-4711

Faculty / Research Interest
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir,
M.D., Ph.D.
Division Chief, Nuclear
Medicine Division
Director, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)
(650) 725-2309
/ Multimodality molecular imaging assays to interrogate molecular/cellular events in living subjects.
Michael Goris, M.D., Ph.D.
/ Radio-immunotherapy; Medical Imaging Processing; Quantification for diagnosis; Clinical validations.
Andrei Iagaru, MD
/ Whole-Body MRI and F-18 PET in Osseous Metastases Detection; Zevalin/Bexxar Therapy; Combined F-18 and F-18 FDG PET/CT for single scan cancer detection; PET-CT for Thyroid/Breast Cancer, Melanoma, Lymphoma, and Sarcoma.
Andrew Quon, M.D.
/ Multimodality fusion imaging with PET, CT, and MRI for oncology; Translational research bringing new radiotracers to clinical use; Cardiovascular multimodality PET/CT imaging.
George Segall, MD
(650) 493-5000 / PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging and CT coronary arteriography.

PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY

725 Welch Road

(650) 725-2548

Faculty / Research Interest
Richard Barth, M.D.
Section Chief
/ Sonographic and magnetic resonance imaging of fetal congenital anomalies; Imaging of fetal renal anomalies, lung masses, and GI anomalies.
Patrick Barnes, M.D.
/ Advanced imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging, of injury to the developing central nervous system including fetal, neonatal, infant and young child, and nonaccidental injury (e.g. child abuse). See also Neuroradiology, above.
Francis Blankenberg, M.D.
/ Molecular imaging. (See also MIPS below)
Frandics Chan, M.D. Ph.D.
/ Cardiac imaging; Congenital heart disease.
John MacKenzie, M.D.
Chief of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging
/ Bone and joint imaging. Arthritis imaging. Molecular imaging of childhood disease. Current projects include MRI of sacroiliitis and hyperpolarized carbon-13 imaging of arthritis and gene therapy.
Beverly Newman, B.Sc.,
MBBCh.
/ Pulmonary and Cardiac imaging in Children. Neonatal Imaging. Radiation dose reduction.
William Northway, M.D. Emeritus
/ Neonatal pulmonary imaging.
Erika Rubesova, M.D. / Perinatal imaging including fetal imaging (US and MRI) and abdominal imaging in children.
Shreyas Vasanawala,
/ Our work is focused on developing and evaluating novel strategies to obtain faster and sharper magnetic resonance images. Target applications span the spectrum of body imaging, including cardiovascular, abdominal, pelvic, and musculoskeletal imaging.
Kristen Yeom, M.D.
/ My primary research interest is in clincal application of advanced MR imaging techniques in pediatric brain tumors. including diffusion, arterial spin labeled perfusion, and functional MRI. We are also interested in translating novel imaging techniques that probe physiologic tumor tissue characteristics.

Radiological Sciences Laboratory (RSL)

Located at: Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging

rsl.stanford.edu/research/lucas_center.html or rsl.stanford.edu

RSL Faculty / Research Interest
Gary Glover, Ph.D.
Director, RSL
(650) 723-7577
/ Rapid MRI methods using non-cartesian k-space trajectories; Applications to functional MRI and contrast uptake in the breast.
Norbert Pelc, Sc.D.
Associate Chair for Research, Radiology
(650) 723-0435
/ New CT systems and reconstruction methods; Hybrid imaging systems;DigitalX-ray imaging
Roland Bammer, Ph.D.
(650) 498-4760
/ Parallel MRI; Perfusion- and diffusion-weighted MRI.
Kim Butts-Pauly, Ph.D.
(650) 725-8551
/ MRI-guided minimally invasive therapies; High intensity focused ultrasound; MRI-guided cryoablation; Interventional MRI; Rapid MR imaging; Motion corrected MRI; Artifact reduction MRI.
Rebecca Fahrig, Ph.D.
(650) 724-3559
/ Image Guidance during Interventional Procedures (Combined
C-arm CT and Fluoroscopy for Neurointerventions; Retrospectively-gated Multi-sweep Cardiac C-arm CT for Guidance during Cardiac interventions; Real-time tomosynthesis; Development of new hardware for MR-compatible X-ray fluoroscopy). Also CT reconstruction, image artifact reduction, hardware design (X-ray tubes) and optimization (digital flat-panel detectors), and in-vivo optimization and validation of imaging protocols.
Brian Hargreaves, Ph.D.
(650) 498-5368
/ Body MRI including abdominal, breast and cardiovascular applications; Rapid MRI techniques; MRI contrast mechanisms; Optimization in MRI sequence design.
Michael Moseley, Ph.D.
(650) 725-6077
/ High-speed MRI techniques to image and measure water proton diffusion and contrast-enhanced tissue blood perfusion; Detection of the earliest effects of experimental and clinical cerebral ischemia; Assessing integrity of cerebral white matter.
Brian Rutt, Ph.D.
/ High Field MRI, MR Engineering, Cellular and Molecular MRI, Neuro MRI, and quantitative MRI.
Daniel Spielman, Ph.D.
(650) 723-8697
/ MR Spectroscopic imaging, 1H MRS of the human brain, metabolic imaging of small animal models using hyperpolarized 13C MRS.

Information Sciences in Imaging at Stanford (ISIS)

ISIS Faculty / Research Interest
Sandy Napel, Ph.D.
Co-Director, ISIS
(650) 725-8027
/ Developing diagnostic and therapy-planning applications and strategies for the acquisition and visualization of multi-dimensional medical imaging data, e.g., 3Dimages of blood vessels, computer-aided detection and characterization of lesions (e.g., colonic polyps, pulmonary nodules) from cross-sectional image data, visualization and automated assessment of 4D ultrasound data, and fusion of images acquired using different modalities (e.g., CT and MR), advanced visualization for interventional applications.
Sylvia Plevritis, Ph.D.
Co-Director, ISIS
650) 498-5261
/ Correlation of imaging data to genomic and proteomic signatures and clinical outcomes; Outcomes research, particularly related to cancer screening programs; Medical decision analysis.
David Paik, Ph.D.
(650) 736-4183
/ Developing and validating computational methodologies for extracting useful information content from anatomic, functional and molecular images, drawing upon image processing, computer vision, computer graphics, computational geometry, machine learning, biostatistics, modeling and simulation. Integrating image-based information with non-imaging biomedical information.
Daniel Rubin M.D., M.S.
(650) 725-5693
/ Medical informatics and bioinformatics; correlating imaging to pathology and molecular data; making the meaning in images computer-accessible; ontologies; “just-in-time” information and decision support to reduce variation in radiology practice; image-based computer reasoning, electronic teaching files, quality assessment, data warehouses/mining, and Web technologies for radiology.

Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)

Located at: James H. Clark Center, 318 Campus Dr., East Wing, 1st Fl.

mips.stanfordedu or biox.stanford.edu

MIPS Faculty / Research Interest
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir,
M.D., Ph.D.
Director, MIPS
Division Chief, Nuclear
Medicine Division
(650) 725-2309
/ Multimodality molecular imaging assays to interrogate molecular/cellular events in living subjects.
Sandip Biswal, M.D.
(650) 498-4561
/ Using multimodality molecular imaging techniques to study musculoskeletal pain, arthritis, inflammation and nociception. (see also Musculoskeletal section above)
Francis Blankenberg, M.D.
(650) 497-8601
/ Molecular imaging of tumor angiogenesis in oncology patients; Molecular imaging of apoptosis. (see also Pediatric Radiology section above)
Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen,
Ph.D.
(650) 725-0950
/ Developing and validating novel molecular imaging probes for visualization and quantification of molecular targets that are aberrantly expressed during tumor growth, angiogenesis and metastasis as well as other angiogenesis related diseases; nanoplatform-based molecular imaging and drug delivery; imaging stem cell trafficking and targeted gene delivery.
Zhen Cheng,
/ Molecular imaging of cancer and its metastasis, identifying novel
cancer biomarkers with significant clinical relevance, development new; chemistry for imaging probes preparation, validating new strategies; for imaging probes high-throughput screening.
Samira Guccione, Ph.D.
(650) 725-4936
/ Multimodality imaging, vascular contrast agents; Molecularly targeted platforms for combined imaging and therapy (including gene and chemotherapies); Focused ultrasound mediated drug delivery including targeted and non-targeted temperature sensitive liposomes; Polymeric, implantable, drug delivery systems for controlled release of drugs over time; Effects of new 'biological' chemotherapies as reflected in various functional imaging techniques; Genomic and proteomic evaluation of clinical tissue and fluid samples.
Craig Levin, Ph.D.
(650) 736-7211
/ Development of novel imaging technology to advance the in-vivo visualization and quantification of cellular and molecular signatures of disease.
Jianghong Rao, Ph.D.
(650) 736-8563
/ Nanoparticle-based sensors for in vitro tumor detection and in vivo imaging; in vivo imaging of RNA; CT contrast agents for tumor-specific molecular imaging.
Juergen Willmann, M.D.
650-725-1812
/ Development and clinical translation of novel molecular and functional imaging biomarkers with special focus on imaging abdominal, pelvic and breast cancer as well as inflammatory bowel disease. - Development of molecular ultrasound contrast agents for early cancer detection and cancer treatment monitoring.
Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
(650) 736-2246
/ Molecular imaging of adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells, and induced pluripotent stem cells; Gene therapy; Genomics.

3D Medical Imaging Laboratory (3D Lab)

Located at: Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging and the James H. Clark Center

3dradiology.stanford.edu

3D Lab Faculty / Research Interest
Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D.
Director, 3D Lab
/ Imaging atherosclerosis and other arterial diseases using CT; Improving radiologist detection of lung nodules with computer-aided detection, Cardiac CT. (see also Cardiothoracic Imaging section above)
Sandy Napel, Ph.D.
co-Director, 3D Lab
(650) 725-8027
/ Developing diagnostic and therapy-planning applications and strategies for the acquisition and visualization of multi-dimensional medical imaging data, e.g., 3Dimages of blood vessels, computer-aided detection and characterization of lesions (e.g., colonic polyps, pulmonary nodules) from cross-sectional image data, visualization and automated assessment of 4D ultrasound data, and fusion of images acquired using different modalities (e.g., CT and MR), advanced visualization for interventional applications.
David Paik, Ph.D.
(650) 736-4183
/ Imaging informatics including how biological information is extracted from both anatomic and molecular imaging, how it is represented, how it is modeled and how it is disseminated with an outlook toward how this imaging-derived information can be combined with other sources of biological and clinical information.
Christopher F. Beaulieu,
M.D., Ph. D.
(650) 725-8018
/ Three dimensional imaging, CT colonography, computer aided detection algorithms and clinical applications. Use of medical informatics to link image features with controlled terminology.

Radiology Interest Group at Stanford website:

rigs.stanford.edu

Department of Radiology website:

radiology.stanford.edu

Radiology residency website:

xray.stanford.edu

Links to research programs:

xray.stanford.edu/applicants/research.html