by | Jun 21, 2024 | Piwnica-Worms, David, Sharma, Vijay, Sivapackiam, Jothilingam
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a novel positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceutical for myocardial perfusion imaging. Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy is widely employed in the evaluation of patients with heart disease. Several ag…
by | May 10, 2024 | May, Adam
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new method for automatically differentiating accelerated heart rhythms caused by wide complex tachycardia (WCTs) into fast, or irregularly fast heart rhythms caused by ventricular tachycardia (VT) and suprave…
by | Feb 6, 2024 | Jha, Abhinav Kumar, Rahman, Md Ashequr, Siegel, Barry, Yu, Zitong
— T-020357, T-020358, T-020744 Myocardial perfusion SPECT optimization
Technology Description
Researchers from the laboratory of Abhinav Jha at Washington University have devised methods to reliably improve and personalize myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging. The inventions include the following capa…
by | Aug 10, 2023 | Jha, Abhinav Kumar, Li, Ran, Woodard, Pamela, Zheng, Jie
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a two-stage neural network model, with CNN and BNN architecture, to segment carotid atherosclerotic plaque components based on multi-weighted MR images and measure the uncertainty of the segmentation output. Th…
by | Oct 18, 2022 | Genin, Guy, Williams, Dillon, Zayed, Mohamed
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Prof. Mohamed Zayed and colleagues have developed an arteriovenous graft cuff with features designed to normalize the blood shear rate and decrease risk of thrombosis at the venous end anastomosis. This device could reduce the failure rate of these grafts, thereby improving …