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• Saving lives through better breast cancer prediction. . .
  
  Breast cancer kills approximately 40,000 U.S. women yearly - many young and in their child-bearing years. Early detection can save many precious lives. Dr. Quing Zhu, joined by a team of physicians at the UConn Health Center, hope to improve detection sensitivity and specificity in diagnostic imaging of breast lesions. Their research, supported by the National Cancer Institute, involves a novel hybrid imaging technique that combines ultrasound with near infrared (NIR) optical techniques based on diffusive waves. The team's hybrid imaging system is designed to combine the high contrasts of NIR imaging in distinguishing among normal, benign and malignant breast lesions with the high spatial resolution inherent in ultrasound imaging. The team anticipates that this method will enable doctors to more readily distinguish between benign and malignant lesions.
  
  
• Brain research for 21st century medicine. . .
• Computers revolutionizing life science research. . .