Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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Producing Medical Isotopes with Dry-Phase Reactor

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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Thomas (Rock) Mackie, Thad Heltemes | P120306US01

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Monitoring Tissue Fluorescence in Bright Light

Intrinsic and extrinsic fluorescent markers can help surgeons target and rapidly identify tumorous tissue. The signals given off by these markers are relatively faint and normally viewed with a fluore...
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Thomas (Rock) Mackie, Adam Uselmann, Andreas Velten, Surendra Prajapati, Kevin Eliceiri | P130298US01

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Evaluating Systemic Cancers

Assessing treatment response in cancer patients is essential to manage their disease and evaluate therapy. Computed tomography (CT) is widely used to monitor cancer treatment by measuring changes in t...
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Robert Jeraj, Glenn Liu | P120188US01

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Depth-Resolved Reflectance Instrument

Phsyicians often use microscopic visual inspection followed by biopsy to detect cancer; however, this method is limited in many ways. Optical techniques are a promising alternative that allows clinici...
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Nirmala Ramanujam, Liu Quan | P05015US

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Using Endogenous Fluorescence to Identify Cancerous Cells

Optical imaging techniques play a pivotal role in detecting disease, injury and other disorders at an early stage and monitoring progression or remission after treatment. Images are generated by detec...
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Paolo Provenzano, Patricia Keely, Kevin Eliceiri, John White | P07165US

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