Technology AI-Driven Medical Imaging System for Health Disparity Detection Medical imaging artificial intelligence probe offering enhanced detection, continuous monitoring, and quantitative analysis of health disparities across populations by leveraging large datasets and advanced machine learning to extract radiomic features…
News Clarix Imaging Addresses Unmet Needs with Novel Imaging-Based Solution for Surgical Oncology Clarix Imaging was founded in 2016 as a spin-off company from the University of Chicago – translating decades of research in advanced medical imaging theory and techniques out of professor...
News Clarix Imaging Gets $10 Million to Scale FDA-Cleared 3D Imaging Tech University of Chicago spinout Clarix Imaging has received $10 million in funding from kineo finance, a Swiss-headquartered investment firm, to advance its novel imaging-based solution for surgical oncology. The company, which...
News AI Helps to Earlier Detect Brain Injury in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest University of Chicago researchers have developed a patent-pending technique using deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), to better assess hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in survivors of cardiac arrest. Over...
Technology AuNP-DG: Deoxyglucose Labeled Gold Nanoparticles as X-Ray Computed Tomography Contrast Agents for Cancer Imaging The targeted metabolic imaging enhancement achieved by deoxyglucose-labeled gold nanoparticles (AuNP-DG) offers superior tumor-specific contrast and improved resolution in computed tomography (CT) scans compared to conventional iodine-based agents, facilitating enhanced…
Technology A Combined Therapy and Imaging Beam Dose Algorithm for Optimal Image-guided Radiation Therapy kV radiation dose for imaging tumors is useful for direct monitoring and real-time organ tracking without relying on high-risk surgical implants. However, the utility of this approach is limited by…
Technology Optogenetic Protein Fusion for Precise And Low-Impact Actin Cytoskeleton Imaging In Cells A light-sensitive version of LifeAct, a peptide used to label actin in cells, to reduce its harmful side effects by controlling its binding through light exposure, improving cell imaging and…
Technology Wide-field Super-resolution Imaging With Femtosecond Time Resolution Optical imaging techniques are limited by diffraction or acquisition time, making imaging through solid materials at the molecular level particularly challenging. As such, current spectroscopy approaches are significantly limited in…
Technology Next-Generation Activity-Based Radiotracer For In Vivo Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging And Therapy Cancer cells show alterations in metabolism that support malignancy and disease progression. Prominent among these metabolic changes is elevations in neutral ether lipids (NELs). The lipid hydrolase neutral cholesterol ester…
News How Five UChicago Innovators Are Fighting the IP Gender Gap It is estimated that only 16.2% of inventors named in international patent applications were women in 2022, according to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In an analysis...
Technology Surgical Mallet for Simultaneous Positioning and Imaging of Biopsy Needles Surgical biopsy needles are traditionally inserted by hand or with a mallet and the positioning of the needle is then verified and adjusted using periodic X-ray or CT imaging. However,…
