Hybrid Optical CT Scanner : Life Changing/Life Saving Inventions @MIT

Hybrid Optical CT Scanner


Clinician: Rajiv Gupta, MD, PhD, Director, VCT Lab and Assistant Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital


MIT Student Team: Josh Gafford, Johannes Schneider, Greg Tao, Kat Wong and Nick Wiltsie



This team will discuss the design and development of an optical tomography setup that can be integrated with existing flat-panel Volume Computed Tomography (CT) scanners. This combination enhances the benefits of optical imaging by allowing anatomical identification, and increases the capabilities of CT imaging by revealing CT-invisible tumors using optical and fluorescence contrast. The device consists of two vertically-mounted concentric rings, with a camera and laser fixed on each respectively. Each ring is able to rotate 360 degrees, making this device the first human-scaled near-infrared optical imaging system with these capabilities. In a clinical setting, such a system provides improved methods for diagnosis of head and neck cancer. Within the pre-clinical setting, this system provides more understanding of tumor physiology in mouse models of cancers.

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Thank you so much for bringing up this important issue,I have no idea about on the optical tomography good that I found your blog in time. :)

jayn