Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Technology

UW-Madison researchers have developed an automated process to accurately quantitate breast density using MR images.  The methods assess tissue properties within a region of interest (ROI) using chem...
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Scott Reeder, Roberta Strigel | P160101US01

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A UW researcher has developed a novel method for simultaneous T1 and T2 weighted imaging using RF phase modulated 3D gradient echo (GRE) imaging. The novel technique enables encoding the different wei...
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Daiki Tamada | P210095US01

Technology

MR Imaging to Detect Placental Abnormalities

Medical imaging to detect structural abnormalities of the placenta is crucial in at least two pathological cases. First, placenta accreta spectrum, where the placenta grows too deeply into the wall of...
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Mark Kliewer | P220314US01

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CLOSED-LOOP SIMULTANEOUS FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (fMRI)-ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG)-TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (TMS) SYSTEM

This case is joint and was filed by Columbia University. A UW researcher, in collaboration with researchers from Columbia University and Medical University of South Carolina, have created a system an...
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Robin Goldman, Paul Sajda, Truman Brown, Mark George, Josef Faller, Jayce Doose, James Mclntosh, Joshua Teves, Yida Lin, Golbarg Saber, Aidan Blankenship, Spiro Pantazatos, Xiaoxiao Sun | P220208US02

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BREAST BIOPSY IMMOBILIZATION DEVICE FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

A UW-Madison clinician along with a group of BME students have developed two designs for new tools for breast MRI biopsies. The first utilizes compression controlled by elastic recoil of a memory foam...
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Samuel Herzog, Emma Brower, Helen Treankler, Gabrielle Ibrahim, Claire Swartz, Cameron Ashford, Meghan Horan, Kennedy Kruse, Eleanor Steger, Lonie Salkowski | P220325US01

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System For Characterizing Brain Condition

A sensitive measure of brain condition simultaneously evaluates multiple measurements of water diffusion in brain tissue combined so as to correct for covariance between the different data types of th...
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Andrew Alexander, Douglas Dean, Gregory Kirk, Brittany Travers | P160358US01

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