by | Oct 22, 2019 | Chen, Hong, Dunn, Gavin, Leuthardt, Eric, Petti, Allegra
— Background: The American Brain Tumor Association reports that about 80,000 of the estimated 700,000 Americans that live with a brain tumor have been diagnosed in 2017. The surgery required for a traditional brain tumor biopsy entails making a hole in the skin and skull, placing a needle probe, and r…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Rossin, Raffaella, Welch, Michael, Woodard, Pamela
— Background
Atherosclerosis is a disease process in which lipid deposition causes the formation of plaques that lead to thickening of the artery walls. The cause of a majority of fatal acute myocardial infarction and sudden coronary death is due to the rupture of soft or unstable plaques; however, t…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Li, Hui
— Radiation dosimetry is a type of quality assurance for radiation therapy (RT) treatment to verify performance and dosage of the therapy to ensure accuracy and patient safety. To determine beam delivery accuracy, phantom patients (made to mimic necessary properties of the body) are used daily to cali…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Grigsby, Perry, Ma, Daniel, Rao, Yuan
— The technology encompasses a software method for automatically and interactively segmenting previously acquired medical images, including MRI and CT studies, based on edge and interior characteristics of regions. The method allows for arbitrary levels of sensitivity in differentiating areas of inte…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Ellis, Matthew, Luo, Jingqin
— Identifying patients at risk of relapse while undergoing particular treatment protocols is critically important yet challenging to do in a timely manner. Researchers at Washington University have deveoped a new method to rapidly and accurately determine relapse risk in a human subject afflicted with…