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May 24, 2023

50th Anniversary of CT at Mayo Clinic Scientific Symposium–Monday June 19th, 2023

By CT Clinical Innovation Center

We are very excited to announce the 50th Anniversary of CT at the Mayo Clinic Scientific Symposium, a day of lectures and presentations from some of the top luminaries in the computed tomography field, all in celebration of the first CT scan in North America, which occurred in 1973 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, […]

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November 29, 2021

Photon-counting CT makes modality more effective for breast imaging

By Kristina Nunez

Winner of an Aunt Minnie Roadie Award for the most popular abstract by page views in their Road to RSNA section, Nathan Huber’s RSNA abstract entitled “Breast Imaging Using Deep-Learning-Enhanced High Resolution, Whole Body, Photon-Counting-Detector CT” (to be presented on November 30) has received recognition by imaging peers via its views on the Aunt Minnie […]

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November 2, 2021

Minnies 2021 winners show COVID-19’s long shadow

By Kristina Nunez

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2021 Minnies awards, and also to the runners-up and the more than 200 candidates who made the semifinalist list across 15 categories. Mayo is featured prominently; read more here. You can view the full slate of semifinalists, as well as our comprehensive list of all the Minnies winners over the […]

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October 1, 2021

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of CT with the AAPM

By Kristina Nunez

AAPM’s Virtual Museum of Medical Physics is celebrating the milestone of the first patient CT scan with an image and video gallery. Check it out!

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September 30, 2021

FDA approval for Siemens NAEOTOM

By Kristina Nunez

Mayo Clinic’s CT Clinical Innovation Center has been part of a journey that spanned more than a decade. Partnering with Siemens Healthineers, the first human whole-body, high-flux photon counting CT system was installed at Mayo in 2014. Another prototype was installed in 2020, and today the system installed in April 2021, the NAEOTOM Alpha, has […]

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September 28, 2021

Congratulations to our Siemens colleagues

By Kristina Nunez

Three researchers from Siemens Healthineers – Stefan Ulzheimer, PhD, Professor Thomas Flohr, PhD, and Björn Kreisler, PhD – have been nominated for the German Future Award (Deutscher Zukunftspreis). Their project entitled “A photon-counting computed tomography scanner – a revolutionary way of looking inside the human body” opens new horizons in clinical imaging by successfully combining […]

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June 14, 2021

Dr. McCollough selected as Reviewer of the Month

By Kristina Nunez

Dr. Cynthia McCollough was selected as a Reviewer of the Month for April 2021 by the Annals of Translational Medicine. She was interviewed after this honor was given, and the transcript can be found here. Congratulations!

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June 10, 2021

Welcome, Kristin Burke!

By Kristina Nunez

Kristin Burke is a recent graduate of Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering in Milwaukee, WI. There she studied biomedical engineering with a concentration in biomechanics. During her time at Marquette she worked as a research assistant in the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Engineering Center, analyzing gait cycle mechanics collected through biplane fluoroscopy and creating 3D […]

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February 26, 2021

Introducing Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Huber

By Kristina Nunez

Congratulations to our graduate student, Nathan Huber, and his new wife Hannah, who were married on February 13, 2021.

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February 5, 2021

Welcome, Dr. Chelsea Dunning

By Kristina Nunez

Chelsea Dunning, PhD, has joined our group! Her graduate research was focused on building a table-top x-ray imaging system capable of simultaneous x-ray fluorescence computed tomography and photon-counting computed tomography imaging of high-atomic number contrast agents, which involved both Monte Carlo simulations and experiments for optimization. As a research fellow in the CT CIC, she […]

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