Poster Takes Top Honor for New MRI of Kidneys

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Four Mayo Clinic physicians, including Patrick T. Liu, M.D., Paradise Valley, recently presented a scientific research poster that was named "best" in its category of Body and Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) at a national medical conference.

The poster, entitled, MRI Differentiation of Renal Cell Carcinoma from Complex Cysts Using Dynamic Enhancement, Digital Subtraction and Enhancement Threshold Measurement, earned the honor at the 13th annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine from May 7 - 13 in Miami Beach. The poster content describes the physicians' research into the accuracy of new methods of performing MRI of the kidneys to detect cancer.

Authors of the poster, in addition to Dr. Liu, were Clinton V. Wellnitz, M.D.; Alvin C. Silva, M.D. and Amy K. Hara, all from the Department of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Mayo Clinic is a private group practice of medicine dedicated to providing diagnosis and treatment of patient illnesses through a systematic focus on individual patient needs. As a leading academic medical center in the Southwest, Mayo Clinic focuses on providing specialty and surgical care in more than 65 disciplines at its outpatient facility in north Scottsdale and at Mayo Clinic Hospital. The 208-licensed bed hospital is located at 56th Street and Mayo Boulevard (north of Bell Road) in northeast Phoenix, and provides inpatient care to support the medical and surgical specialties of the clinic, which is located at 134th Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale.

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