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Research Question

For the past few weeks, I have been circling regions of interest (ROIs) on DCE (dynamic contrast enhanced)-MRIs of sarcomas. The patients were injected with a contrast agent before the MRI was performed. My research question for the summer is to look at the DCE-MRI data (such as the graph of signal strength from the tumor vs. time) to identify prognostic factors that can determine treatment efficacy. The actual images are from about 10 years ago so we know how the patients responded to treatment. Hopefully we will find some correlation between the DCE-MRI data and the results of treatment.

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One Response to “Research Question”

  1. Trisha Saha Says:
    June 21st, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    sounds exciting, Alaina! (really, I’m not being sarcastic!). All this mri circling will answer some big questions so good for you. Plus, I just saw that CBS news clip. WOW. You’re in quite an accomplished lab!