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The latest publication from my lab is a new intratumoral immunotherapy delivery platform, which achieves 6 days of intratumoral drug release, from a single injection. Tumors can be…

The immune system is like a computer, which uses chemical signals, instead of electrical signals. When the immune system sees a potential threat, it needs to integrate information …

Instead of major surgery, tumors can be treated by blocking off the artery supplying the tumor, thus starving the tumor of nutrients and oxygen. This is a common treatment for live…

OpenSCAD file for the barbed catheter: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

When the immune system encounters a new antigen, it needs to make a decision about whether to attack, or to ignore. Making the correct decision is important for fighting infections…

When the immune system encounters a new antigen, it needs to make a decision about whether to attack, or to ignore. Making the correct decision is important for fighting infections…

That's the system we had in the 1970s (government owned the patent to government-funded research). And what happened is that the government didn't know what to do with the patents,…

> Life would be simpler if only these hospitals could set aside their arrogance and just go with the recommended workflow! This would be like asking programmers to standardize on t…

In a hospital or healthcare system, all of the doctors can generally see all of the imaging, labs, and notes for all patients. The problem with "curbside consults" -- where another…

Interventional radiologist here. The short answer is "no." I personally perform more than 100 different types of procedures, but there are lots of variations of each procedure, and…

Another thing to keep in mind is that “one” procedure often involves multiple CPT codes. Sometimes the CPT codes change during the procedure, based on what the surgeon finds. The h…

Yes, we induce pancreatic cancer in pigs, and then we try to treat the cancer. One important question is why so many new cancer treatments are successful in mice and rats, but then…

We've tried the organoid approach, but ultimately, you need an animal model to properly model blood flow, immune response, etc. So we developed a pig model of pancreatic cancer: ht…

If the fluoro (X-ray) machine fails during a procedure, you can either bring in a portable C-arm, or move the patient (mid-procedure) to a different procedure room with working equ…

p value by Fisher's exact test is 0.007. It's a significant difference.

> Vista[0] (the VA's EMR) is pretty scary. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. why do you say that? From a doctor's perspective, Vista is one of the more user friendly EMRs.

Here's a normal brain MRI, compared to photographed slices of a brain: https://www.claripacs.com/a.php?a=vw (Click and drag to scroll. "Share > Download" to download the full DICOM…

Thanks! I'll look into this. I also use g++ on Linux, so a cross-platform solution would be nice.

A lot of the radiology software that I write involves iterating over a 3D grid. The auto-parallelizer lets you easily process each 2D slice on a different processor core. My laptop…

I just discovered that MSVC++ can automatically run each iteration of a loop in parallel in separate threads. Add "#pragma loop(hint_parallel(8))" and "#pragma loop(ivdep)" before …

I wish that on AWS, you could create EBS volumes larger than 1 TB. I know you can set up RAID to get > 1 TB, but it'd be nice if Amazon handled this automatically.

We developed an easy way to email and collaboratively view CT or MRI studies. http://www.claripacs.com .