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The following article was published in the Engineering @ Maryland magazine Fall 2005, Vol. 5, No.2
Advanced Applications in Radiology
Reuben Mezrich, M.D., Ph D,. the John M. Dennis Professor and radiology chair at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is looking to bioengineering to help "move the operating room into the imaging lab." Mezrich is turning to engineers and scientists to refine the robotics behind image-guided therapy to improve real-time visualization and allow for better analysis of and interaction with data images.
He cites breast cancer as one disease for which improved imaging could bring screening to new patients. "Magnetic resonance imaging has great potential as a screen for breast cancer in much younger women. You eliminate the radiation risk associated with mammography and gain sensitivity to changes in the soft tissue present in younger women," Mezrich says. He hopes to develop technologies to advance this approach and use spectroscopy to detect subtle tissue changes, such as benign or cancerous fiber abnormalities.
Raj Shekhar, M.D., assistant professor of diagnostic radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Bioengineering Graduate Program adjunct, is teaching a medical imaging and image processing course to bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering students. He also works with students on two current projects: the creation of smart imaging technology that will enable future surgeons to work withoug directly seeing the operative field, greatly enhancing accuracy and enabling long-distance surgery on the battlefield and elsewhere; and the development of software and hardware for a new compact beamformer for volumetric ultrasound imaging.
On the cover of JNM
Take a look at the images on the cover page of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol 46 No. 9.
The abstract can be found here