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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IMAGE: Quing Zhu s lab developed this handheld ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography system which consists of a 10-centimeter probe and a near-infrared system that takes data noninvasively from the breast from nine. view more
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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 Ba