Oct 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Images showing coronal, axial, and sagittal speed of sound images of the breast, taken with the QT Imaging scanner. Urbana, Ill. – A Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher has been awarded a multi-million-dollar federal grant to develop an advanced...
Apr 14, 2022 | Cancer Center News
This kidney cancer tumor model imaged using ultrasound localization techniques captures directional flow mapping of the tumor and distinguishes between feeding and draining vasculature. More than 75 years after the Fry brothers arrived at Grainger Engineering, the...
Oct 18, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Michael Oelze. Urbana, Ill. – A Carle Illinois College of Medicine research team is developing a new device that will improve the management of breast cancer using ultrasound imaging. The team has innovated new radiological clips that will increase...
Feb 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Four in ten* patients screened for breast cancer are at a higher risk of misdiagnosis due to the presence of dense breast tissue. Traditional mammography cannot reliably diagnose the disease in these patients, sometimes even with the help of supplemental screening....
Nov 25, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. — Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member, Michael Oelze, and his collaborative breast cancer and ultrasound imaging research with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, was awarded a major $2M grant from the National Cancer Institute...
Oct 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, CCIL Ambassadors
As a large research institution, the University of Illinois offers its students the opportunity to work within faculty labs as well as spread awareness for the research happening blocks away from their dorms. The Cancer Center at Illinois Ambassador program enables...
Aug 19, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois is a basic science research institution, where members contribute to cancer research by studying biological pathways and genetics, discover and test new drugs, improve medical imaging techniques, develop and evaluate cancer models, and...
May 14, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Conventional ultrasound techniques are used to diagnose and monitor cancer patients around the world. However, clinical ultrasound is limited when attempting to distinguish between subtle vascular changes. Collaborations between researchers from Illinois and Mayo...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using a new application of an existing imaging technique that may help detect tumors in humans. The technique, super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy, was used to visualize the distribution...
