by | Jul 5, 2022 | Achilefu, Samuel, Meng, Hongyu, Mondal, Suman, O'Brien, Christine, Shmuylovich, Leonid
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Temperature differences between tumor and healthy tissue due to increased blood flow and metabolic activity are exploited for thermal imaging (TI) as an adjunct imaging modality for cancer diagnosis. Despite many technological advances and recent improvements, TI has a limited tumor dept…
by | Mar 3, 2022 | Yablonskiy, Dmitriy, Zhao, Yue
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Researchers in Prof. Dmitriy Yablonskiy’s laboratory have developed patented neuroimaging techniques to identify pre-clinical and early stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using MRI-based biomarkers of amyloid accumulation and other pathological changes in the brain. …
by | Feb 25, 2022 | Li, Jr-Shin
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Engineers in Prof. Jr-Shin Li’s laboratory have developed a computationally efficient analytical technique to design exact RF pulse code sequences which optimize quantum applications such as MRI for medical diagnosis, NMR spectroscopy for uncovering protein structures …
by | Feb 21, 2022 | Curcuru, Austen, Gach, H. Michael, Kim, Taeho, Villa, Umberto
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to improve image quality during MR imaging guided radiation therapy (MR-IGRT) by correcting for B0 fluctuation in real-time. The corrections reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) between the MRI sc…
by | Feb 8, 2022 | Garcia Hernandez, Nimrod Missael, Gruev, Viktor
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Engineers in Prof. Viktor Gruev’s laboratory have developed a compact 27-band hyperspectral imaging system for high resolution, label-free, real-time imaging. This system can distinguish spectral signatures in image guided surgery (IGS) and other applications. The tech…