by | Feb 27, 2020 | Green, Olga, Mutic, Sasa, Park, Chunjoo (Justin), Zhang, Hao
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A team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine developed deep learning image processing techniques to improve MRI diagnostics and potentially enable faster, more precise MRI-guided radiation therapy without exposing patients to radiation from CT imaging. S…
by | Feb 24, 2020 | Mostafa, Atahar, Zhu, Quing
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Prof. Quing Zhu and colleagues have pioneered a compact, low-cost ultrasound-guided optical tomography system designed to differentiate between benign and malignant breast lesions and reduce the need for costly and invasive biopsies. This technology enables fast, robust imag…
by | Jan 13, 2020 | Abou, Diane, Thorek, Daniel
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to chelate radium-223 and increase its utility in targeted alpha-particle therapy (TAT). TAT aims to deliver cytotoxic alpha-particles to cancer cells. Radium-223 is an alpha particle emitting isotope …
by | Dec 17, 2019 | Yang, Deshan
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Prof. Deshan Yang and colleagues have developed automated systems and software toolkits to provide more accurate deformable image registration (DIR) for adaptive radiotherapy and other clinical applications. In particular, they have automated tedious and labor-intensive DIR …
by | Dec 16, 2019 | Wang, Xiaowei
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In search of more effective cancer treatments, inventors in Dr. Xiaowei Wang’s lab at Washington University School of Medicine have developed artificial interference RNA (aiRNA). aiRNA is a patented chimeric RNAi that combines the multi-target abilities of miRNAs and t…