Using advances in flexible electronics, researchers at Stanford have developed a stretchable strain sensor for monitoring solid tumor size progression on or near the skin in real time.
Stanford inventors have developed a near infrared (NIR) tumor imaging platform that couples a novel rare earth cancer targeting agent and a handheld NIR-IIb fluorescence imager to enable tumor resection down to the few-cell level.
Ultrasound technology is a safe, high-resolution, and cost-efficient tool for imaging. Other modalities, such as MRI or CT, may require the use of anesthesia. This makes it difficult to image pediatric patients and patients sensitive to anesthesia.
Stanford researchers have designed and prototyped an inexpensive, compact and easy-to-use smartphone lens mount for the capture of high quality photographs and videos of the eye's front and back structures.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a probe, NIRDye812, which improves contrast between healthy and diseased tissues for fluorescence-guided cancer surgery applications.
Stanford inventors have developed and fabricated biodegradable and biocompatible polysaccharide hydrogel optical fibers for fiber optic sensing and light transmission in biomedical applications like antigen detection, tracking cellular events, and optogenetics.
A common hurdle for many drug delivery applications is getting the desired compounds to the targeted cells or receptors. Additional barriers of achieving the therapeutic drug concentration and necessary drug diffusion are also present even after successful targeted delivery.
Stanford researchers are developing an improved prophylactic against pancreatitis caused by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), by targeting two key inflammatory pathways.
Tracking in vivo cell distribution, migration, and engraftment using conventional techniques including MRI, PET/CT and conventional optical imaging is often hindered by low resolution, radioactive risks, and limited tissue penetration depth.
Researchers in Prof. Karl Deisseroth's laboratory have combined optogenetics with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to enable highly specific in vivo analysis of brain circuits.
Radiation therapy is a common option in diseases like breast cancer, but can also cause significant damage to the skin. Permanent scarring and fibrosis can result, with both aesthetic and functional consequences for cancer patients.
Stanford researchers developed a first-in-class small-molecule inhibitor of the CLC-2 ion channel for research and drug development. CLC-2 is part of the CLC family of chloride ion channels, which regulate the flux of chloride ions across cell membranes.
Stanford researchers have developed a method for manufacturing a UV curable epoxy micro lens. Apertures of arbitrary size can be manufactured for micro lenses using this method.