2026 Radiology Research Day Awardees
Best Overall
Nick Perkons, M.D.
“Intravascular Ultrasound-Guided Transcaval Cisterna Chyli Access for Lymphatic Intervention: A Proof-of-Concept Study in a Porcine Model”
Mentor: Brendan Cline, M.D.
Training Level: Resident
Best Oral Presentation
Katie Olivas, Medical Physics Graduate Program
“A Quantitative Framework for Opportunistic Bone Health Screening Using Photon-Counting CT Localizer Radiographs”
Mentor: Ehsan Abadi, Ph.D.; Ehsan Samei, Ph.D.
Best Undergraduate Poster
Kunyu (Kimi) Du
“Same-Session Repeatability of Single-Breath Fractional Ventilation Measurements Derived from 129Xe Gas Exchange MRI”
Mentor: David Mummy, Ph.D.
Best Medical Student Poster
Soren Christensen
“Photon-Counting Detector vs. Energy-Integrating Detector CT Myelography
for Detecting CSF-Venous Fistulas in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Lower
Radiation Dose”
Mentor: Timothy J Amrhein, M.D.
Best Trainee Poster
Nick Perkons, M.D.
“EPIC Workflow Changes to Improve Interventional Radiology Consult Triage and Reduce Overnight Paging Volume”
Mentor: Charles Kim, M.D.
Training Level: Resident
Best Graduate Student Posters
Seth Lee, Medical Physics Graduate Program
“Improving the precision of hyperpolarized 129Xe MR spectroscopy using heart rate-based spectral averaging”
Mentor: Bastiaan Driehuys, Ph.D.
Fong Chi Ho, PhD Student
“Task-specific Evaluation of Photon-Counting CT Using a 3D-Printed Anthropomorphic Lung Phantom with COPD Pathology”
Mentor: Ehsan Abadi, Ph.D.