Imaging

Residual Bubble Control to Boost Ablative Ultrasound Efficacy

SUMMARY Residual bubble clouds decrease the therapeutic efficacy of ablative ultrasound therapy. Ultrasound pulses can be used to destroy residual bubbles, however constructive interference limits simultaneous imaging and monitoring. The inventors developed a method to use plane wave B-mode imaging for the simultaneous generation of bubble deleting pulses and real… Read More

A Telescoping Catheter System for Angiography of the Left Internal Mammary Artery From a Right Transradial Approach

SUMMARY Pedicled left internal mammary artery (LIMA) bypass grafts are performed in over 90% of coronary artery bypass graft surgeries. The grafted vasculature potentially requires future angiographic surveillance or catheterization, with the right transradial approach being the safest and most ergonomically favored vascular access approach. Despite this, there is currently… Read More

Wide-field Super-resolution Imaging With Femtosecond Time Resolution

SUMMARY 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 the resolution of the images captured. The inventors developed a novel optical resonance imaging technique that uses two laser… Read More

Single-shot UV-Vis Multidimensional Spectrophotometer

SUMMARY Current UV-Vis protocols require long acquisition times which prevents the acquisition of data on electron dynamics. This in turn limits the resolution with which UV-Vis can be used for certain applications such as contaminant identification.  The inventors developed a technology called Gradient-Assisted Photon Echo Spectroscopy (GRAPE), which acquires the… Read More

AuNP-DG: Deoxyglucose Labeled Gold Nanoparticles as X-Ray Computed Tomography Contrast Agents for Cancer Imaging

SUMMARY 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 cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. The Unmet Need: Current CT contrast agents lack tumor-specific uptake and sustained imaging performance Traditional… Read More