Purpose A chemical shift separation technique for hyperpolarized 13C metabolic imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution was developed. Specifically, a fast three-dimensional pulse sequence and a reconstructio...
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Computed tomography (CT) is an important tool in clinical diagnostic imaging enabling three-dimensional anatomic imaging at high spatial resolution with short scan times. However, X-ray attenuation differences in phys...
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Computed tomography (CT) is an important tool in clinical diagnostic imaging enabling three-dimensional anatomic imaging at high spatial resolution with short scan times. However, X-ray attenuation differences in physiological fluids and soft tissues are relatively small, requiring the use of contrast agents to achieve sufficient imaging contrast. Recent advances in energy-sensitive X-ray detectors have made spectral (color) CT commercially feasible by unmixing the energy-dependent attenuation profile of different materials and will potentially enable molecular imaging in CT. In order to leverage these capabilities for diagnostic imaging, we are developing a spectral library of nanoparticle contrast agents with K-shell absorption edges spaced at least 10 keV apart. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the ability of spectral CT to simultaneously detect up to three different contrast agents and unmixed their signals to create color images. Gadolinium oxide (Gd), hafnium oxide (Hf) and gold (Au) were chosen due to exhibiting K-edges spaced 10-20 keV apart. Core-shell nanoparticles of each composition were synthesized by various methods to have a core diameter of 15-20 nm and were coated with a silica shell at least 2-4 nm in thickness to create a common platform for surface functionalization. The contrast agents were imaged in a soft tissue equivalent phantom using source-side method for spectral CT imaging. The source-side approach utilized monochromatic synchrotron radiation at the Argonne National Laboratory which, while not clinically applicable, served as a gold standard due to providing the highest spectral resolution. The nanoparticles designed for this study have broad applications in biomedical imaging due to their modular assembly, potential for enabling multi-modal detection, and surface functionalization with biomolecules (e.g., antibodies, peptides or enzymes) for active targeting.
Methods of fabricating microfluidic devices that are scalable, simple, and inexpensive are necessary to ease the transition of microfluidics from an academic to an industrial discipline. Here we present a method for r...
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Many normal and pathological biological processes involve the migration of epithelial cell sheets. This arises from complex emergent behaviour resulting from the interplay between cellular signalling networks and the ...
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Many normal and pathological biological processes involve the migration of epithelial cell sheets. This arises from complex emergent behaviour resulting from the interplay between cellular signalling networks and the forces that physically couple the cells. Here, we demonstrate that collective migration of an epithelium can be interactively guided by applying electric fields that bias the underlying signalling networks. We show that complex, spatiotemporal cues are locally interpreted by the epithelium, resulting in rapid, coordinated responses such as a collective U-turn, divergent migration, and unchecked migration against an obstacle. We observed that the degree of external control depends on the size and shape of the cell population, and on the existence of physical coupling between cells. Together, our results offer design and engineering principles for the rational manipulation of the collective behaviour and material properties of a tissue.
We examined the visibility of motion artifacts-judder, motion blur, and edge banding-on a Samsung 240Hz stereoscopic 3D (S3D) OLED display. We determined the relative contributions of the frame rate of the content, up...
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We report on a microfluidic approach to streamline the exosome analysis pipeline via integrating immunoisolation and targeted proteomic analysis of exosomes. This method enables quantitative exosomal biomarker analysi...
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Exosome enriched with a group of tumor antigens is a promising alternative for reliable diagnosis of ovarian cancer (OvCa) from simple blood draw. However, the tedious and lengthy protocols for exosome isolation prese...
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Based on the its nonintrusive characteristics, ballistocardiography (BCG) has applied in the estimation of sleep structure without attaching any sensors to the subject's body. Loadcell or polyvinylidenefluoride (P...
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Based on the its nonintrusive characteristics, ballistocardiography (BCG) has applied in the estimation of sleep structure without attaching any sensors to the subject's body. Loadcell or polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF) film sensors are installed on the mattress for the monitoring of BCG. BCG peak was detected and heart rate variability parameters are derived. Parameters representing sleep structure and quality are estimated using these parameters. Sleep efficiency, four stages of sleep structure and sleep onset latency are estimated and results are compared with the results derived from polysomnographic recording.
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