Abdominal & Pelvic MRI | Noworolski Lab
The Noworolski Laboratory is focused on translational MR imaging of the abdomen and pelvis. We focus two general areas of multiparametric MRI studies. The first is on prostate cancer, including quantitative modeling of the MR data and AI/ML approaches to identify and predict cancer aggressiveness. The second is on studies of metabolic health, including liver, visceral, and pancreatic fat measures, and novel measures of fat, to assess metabolic health in high-risk patients and after interventions, particularly dietary interventions.
Research
With Principal Investigator, Greg Metzger, from the University of Minnesota, we are developing a prostate imaging phantom and analyses tools and performing multi-center, multi-vendor…
The Noworolski laboratory has established methods to evaluate ectopic fat stores using MRI and to assess fat, inflammation and fibrosis in the liver to characterize disease and to…
This project aims to identify important immunologic pathways – both in the bloodstream and in fat tissue – that predict Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) specifically in the context of…
This project seeks to test the overarching hypothesis that patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and hypoxia (H-OSA) have greater degrees of insulin resistance and ectopic fat…
The Noworolski Laboratory, with multi-Principal Investigator, Lisa Wilmes, PhD, are developing and evaluating an MRI proton density fat fraction acquisition tailored to scanning the…
The Noworolski Lab has a long history of establishing the mpMRI signatures of cancerous and various benign tissues, with detailed correlation with histopathology. In recent years, this…
We are investigating whether our prostate cancer risk maps can better target therapy for men receiving HIFU treatment for prostate cancer.
We are utilizing our prostate cancer risk maps to identify and predict progression for men on active surveillance. We are additionally investigating utilizing the maps to predict…
- Duc Huy Doan, MS
- Kelly Du
- Edgar Castellanos Diaz, BS
- Jack Williams, MS
- Natalie Korn, PhD
- Olga Starobinets, PhD
