Research

High quality research involving both national and international collaboration is carried out within the department.

Neuroradiology research is carried out by staff within the University and The Royal Melbourne Hospital using the facilities provided in the Brain Imaging Laboratory within the Radiology Department.

Advanced Medical Science students also undertake research studies under the supervision of Radiology Department Staff.

Research projects for 2004/05:

• The use of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in the diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer.
• MRI use in the detection of positive nodes in prostate cancer using Combidex, a contrast agent containing ultra small superparamagnetic iron oxide particles.
• MRI of the prostate gland.
• MRI assessment of therapeutic response in patients with active Crohn's disease.
• Evaluation of appendiceal anatomy with computed tomography
• Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma: evaluation of effectiveness and safety.
• The assessment of duodenal and small bowel polyps in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis.
• The assessment of small bowel polyps in patients with Peutz Jegher's syndrome and juvenile polyposis with capsule endoscopy.
• Gadolinium and low-dose iodinated contrast CT angiography in the diagnosis of renal artery stenosis in high-risk patients with renal impairment.
• Randomised double-blind control trial of intra-articular yttrium-90 citrate plus 40 mg Trimcinolene acetonide versus intra-articular 40 mg Triancinolene acetonide alone for the treatment of chronic inflammatory knee arthritis.

Research Projects completed during 2003/04

• Helical CT in the evaluation of potential live renal donors
• Retrospective review of the Ct findings in hepatic veno occlusive disease in patients following bone marrow transplantation.
• Intravenous cholangiography
• Contrast nodule densitometry to assess the efficacy of radiofrequency ablation of pulmonary malignancies
• MR variants in the wrist bones of normal subjects.
• A longitudinal study of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy and diffusion tensor imaging in Huntington's disease - when does corticostriatal dysfunction begin?
• The adverse effects of diabetes on stroke: an echoplanar MRI study.

Research Publications 2003 / 2004