Grant: Collaborative Health Research Projects
Ryerson University
$145,283.00
Development of treatment planning platform for ultrasound stimulated microbubble therapy
FY 2016-17
Summary
Our group has discovered that by combining ultrasound and microbubbles, the vasculature of tumors can be madeexquisitely sensitive to radiation therapy. Therefore, this approach holds considerable promise for enhancing theeffectiveness of radiation treatments. However, translating this basic discovery into a clinical system that can be used in aclinical environment on cancer patients requires the development of software that would treatment planning, in a manner thatis done currently before a radiation treatment. The objective of this work is to translate to create software for treatmentplanning when using ultrasound and microbubbles in conjunction with radiation therapy. Moreover, more accuratemathematical models will be used to predict how the microbubbles interact with the ultrasound in order to increase thedamage to the tumor vasculature.
Program
Collaborative Health Research Projects
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
493635-2016
Name nom
Kolios, Michael
Department département
Physics
Organization id
43
Institution établissement
Ryerson University
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2016
Competition year année de concours
2016
Award amount
145283
Program id
CHRPJ
Program name en
Collaborative Health Research Projects
Program name fr
Projets de recherche concertée sur la santé
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
360
Committee name en
Collaborative Health Research Projects Selection Panel
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection de projets de recherche concertée sur la santé
Area of application code
9999
Area of application group en
Not available
Area of application group fr
Non disponible
Area of application en
Not available
Area of application fr
Non disponible
Research subject code
9999
Research subject group en
Not available
Research subject group fr
Non disponible
Research subject en
Not available
Research subject fr
Non disponible
Partie
1
Nb partie
3
Application title
Development of treatment planning platform for ultrasound stimulated microbubble therapy
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Our group has discovered that by combining ultrasound and microbubbles, the vasculature of tumors can be madeexquisitely sensitive to radiation therapy. Therefore, this approach holds considerable promise for enhancing theeffectiveness of radiation treatments. However, translating this basic discovery into a clinical system that can be used in aclinical environment on cancer patients requires the development of software that would treatment planning, in a manner thatis done currently before a radiation treatment. The objective of this work is to translate to create software for treatmentplanning when using ultrasound and microbubbles in conjunction with radiation therapy. Moreover, more accuratemathematical models will be used to predict how the microbubbles interact with the ultrasound in order to increase thedamage to the tumor vasculature.
