Faculty from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis teamed up to design better grafts for dialysis patients.
New technology predicts effectiveness of chemotherapy after one treatment
While early detection of breast cancer is critical, early prediction of how well the neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment before surgery is working also may provide a window of opportunity when treatment could be altered and have a big impact on the patient s quality of life.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has found that combining data from tumor biomarkers, ultrasound, and ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography (DOT) after a patient s first cycle of pre-surgical neoadjuvant chemotherapy provided a highly accurate prediction of how the tumor was responding to the treatment. The results from a clinical trial at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital were published online in
Researchers have discovered that by combining data from tumor biomarkers, ultrasound and ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography (DOT) after a patient's first cycle of chemotherapy it is possible to accurately predict how the tumor is responding to treatment.
Quing Zhu's lab developed this handheld ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography system which consists of a 10-centimeter probe and a near-infrared.
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