U-M receives $1.9M grant to improve CT scan quality

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | Source: Concentrate
A University of Michigan research team is making CT scans more readable with less radiation, and it has a $1.9 million grant to help them.

U-M's 10-person team is working with about half-a-dozen researchers at General Electric to find a way to administer CT scans that simultaneously use less radiation and reveal more information about a patient, such as finding tumors or blood clots through higher-definition images.

U-M Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Prof. Jeff Fessler is leading the team at U-M. He expects the research to make serious headway toward accomplishing this and actually get the improvements to the market in the near future.

"I hope to see something move out of the laboratory and into the clinic within 1-2 years," Fessler says.

Source: Jeff Fessler, professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
Writer: Jon Zemke
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