May 24, 2018 | On-going Projects
Mayo Collaborator: Mirek Fatyga, Ph.D. Radiobiological modeling of a likelihood of treatment outcome is a tool that enables quantitative analysis of tradeoffs inherent in the practice of radiation therapy. Common examples of such tradeoffs are increasing treatment...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Background The gold standard for examining hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is biopsy, which is an invasive procedure that can often result in morbidity/mortality. In addition, the locations for biopsy samples are limited within the liver or a mass and thus suffer from...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Cancer is the leading cause of death of Americans aged 40-79 years. Part of the problem is ineffective evaluation of treatment responses. Currently applied tumor response metrics, such as Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, rely on subjective tumor...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Mayo Collaborators: Alvin Silva, M.D., Scott Kriegshauser Determining the chemical composition of renal stones can have a profound effect on clinical management. Dual-energy CT (DECT), including single-source DECT (ssDECT) has been shown to significantly improve renal...
May 24, 2018 | Completed Projects
Background Accessing dosage amounts from medical records used to be performed manually, causing difficulty in collecting information from digital imaging procedures into a central repository. The need to track dosages has grown because of efforts within the medical...
