by | Feb 9, 2021 | An, Hongyu, Eldeniz, Cihat
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Researchers in Prof. Hongyu An’s laboratory have developed a new image processing system for faster acquisition of motion-corrected MR or PET/MR images. This technology could be expanded to multiple sampling schema to correct both respiratory and cardiac motion.
Liv…
by | Nov 30, 2020 | Chandrasekaran, Vinay, Genin, Guy, Hafez, Daniel, Hartquist, Chase, Leuthardt, Eric, Lowe, Halle, Osbun, Joshua, Zayed, Mohamed
— An interdisciplinary team at Washington University has developed an easy-to-use neurovascular catheter system designed to reduce surgery time and prevent herniation during transradial interventions for stroke, aneurysms and other conditions. This device, called “String Theory”, can be sw…
by | Nov 5, 2020 | Damiano, Ralph, Schuessler, Richard
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This technology is a patented method aimed at increasing the success rate of atrial fibrillation (AF) treatment by designing customized, patient-specific cardiac ablation lesion sets.
AF, the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, has traditionally been treated with a ma…
by | Jul 13, 2020 | Ory, Daniel, Peterson, Linda, Schaffer, Jean
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A team of researchers has developed a high throughput, FDA-compliant assay to predict coronary heart disease and mortality in the general population 6-10 years before the onset of disease. This fully validated two-dimensional liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (L…
by | Apr 30, 2020 | Chung, Charles, Kovacs, Sandor, Shmuylovich, Leonid
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Researchers in Prof. Sandor Kovacs’ laboratory developed a patented, non-invasive, load-independent method to measure the intrinsic diastolic performance of the heart. This load-independent index of filling (LIIF) can be incorporated into the software of echocardiogram…