Medical isotopes like molybdenum-99 are used for imaging patients and treating disease. Today, most radioisotopes are produced in nuclear reactors outside of the United States that employ highly enric...
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Improved MRI methods are needed to diagnose nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most common cause of liver disease in the Western world. Promising studies have demonstrated the utility of Tl...
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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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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic imaging technique that is especially effective for soft tissues such as the brain and other organs. To produce an MR image, the patient is subjected to...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an automated tool that uses image data to systematically predict lesion-level response to treatment. This allows the opportunity to guide treatment for an indivi...
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UW-Madison researchers have designed a sophisticated imaging fiducial with 3D helical patterns that stores geometric information directly within a single fiducial shape rather than an array of individ...
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Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technology is used to measure nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) from various substances in human tissue to produce medical images for qualitative and quantitative assess...
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X-ray mammography is currently the most popular method of detecting breast cancer. However, X-ray mammography requires painful breast compression and is not sensitive enough to detect some early-stage...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method of generating pseudo-CT data for PET correction from the PET data alone. The approach is executed in three sequential stages: first, a dedicated machine...
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A major challenge of T1 and T2 mapping in MR Imaging is that rapid methods must be used to acquire the data required to create the maps in a relatively short scan time, otherwise the data will reflect...
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UW Madison researchers have developed methods for generating patient-specific reports that correlate imaging data to underlying biology, physiology, and/or genetics to enhance precision medicine in pa...
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Although current microscopic optical systems are highly sensitive, they are generally bulky and expensive, and most have a severely limited field of vision. One alternative is adaptive microlenses tha...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for motion-robust MRI with multiple contrasts, using a short temporal footprint, simple post-processing and optimized SNR. The method uses multiple conse...
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A UW-Madison researcher has designed an optimized AOSLO system to enable optimized resolution and contrast when imaging different sized pupils. In addition, this design reduces the scale of the system...
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UW-Madison researchers have designed a novel implantable microscale inductor-capacitor to enhance signal for neuro fMRI images. The device provides in vivo tissue monitoring and/or treatment using an ...
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UW inventors and industry collaborators have developed a method to create a low noise video from a noisy signal by combining it with simultaneously captured video of the same scene from a low noise re...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a system and methods that incorporate data from a plurality of modalities into a hierarchal structure of machine learning models to construct one or more prognost...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for angiographic blood velocity quantification from time-signal curves with oscillating change in contrast. The method can be used to quantify blood velo...
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Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. In metastasis, cells of a primary cancer break away from where they were first formed and travel through the body to create new lesions. Ea...
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There is a critical need for significant improvements in image-based assessment of the prostate in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). MRE has been used to image the prostate using a both ab...
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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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UW-Madison researchers are developing an ultrasound based method to provide urodynamic data in an accessible and less invasive way. The technology entails acquiring a pre-void (full bladder volume) us...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel clinical MRI method for quantitative T2 mapping. The new T2 mapping method uses RF-phase modulated dual echo steady-state sequence (DESS). T2 information ...
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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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UW Madison researchers have developed a new, fully automated, deep learning based fat segmentation tool for CT images of the pelvis, abdomen and chest. The tool provides more accurate segmentation of ...
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