How does our new technique of functional Ultrasound (fUS) compare to gold standard intra-operative neuro-imaging techniques such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) or Electrocortical Stimulation Mapping (ESM)?Find out in our latest paper published in NeuroImage, where we perform co-registered, multimodal functional experiments with the help of awake craniotomy patients: Paper link
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Neurosurgical practice provides rare and direct access to the exposed human brain, which is otherwise safely hidden under the skull and dura. This exposure provides a unique opportunity for both neuroscientific as well as clinical goals, especially when harnessing techniques which have limited transcranial penetrability. How do we fully harness this potential? Which techniques are
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We are very proud of Sadaf Soloukey who won the prestigious Best Student Paper Award of the 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Venice, Italy. Her paper describes a new sub-spectrum Doppler analysis method for processing functional ultrasound data.
Read More...Our CUBE-clinic work was recently featured in a documentary of RTV Rijnmond called ‘Hart van Rotterdam’, looking into the research performed within the Erasmus Medical Center. In this video, Sadaf Soloukey (PhD-Candidate within CUBE) explains how functional Ultrasound (fUS) works and how the team was able to go from technique development to actual clinical application
Read More...“Finding The Brain Tumor’s Achilles Heel” by Sadaf Soloukey et al. 2020, was selected as one of the 15 images to be displayed in the FENS new website. It will also be shared via Instagram and Twitter. This image shows a 3D-reconstruction of a Low Grade Glioma (LGG), taken from a patient’s brain during awake
Read More...Imaging Live Brain Activity During Awake Brain Surgery: A new application of functional Ultrasound (fUS) now enables maximum safe brain tumor resection The CUBE-clinic team has managed to image live cerebral blood flow during awake brain surgery using functional Ultrasound (fUS). This cutting-edge technique could aid neurosurgeons in their effort to remove brain tumors without
Read More...Hardware-acceleration giant Nvidia has officially joint forces with ErasmusMC for jointly developing and deploying GPU-accelerated image processing and AI algorithms in CUBE, suited for both the lab and the clinic. Nvidia, welcome onboard!
Read More...On April 22nd, Sadaf Soloukey was featured in a video-interview by NOS, the dutch national news. In a three minute video, shot during an awake craniotomy surgery in the OR of dr. Vincent, Sadaf explains the application of functional Ultrasound (fUS) in a neurosurgical setting. Not only would fUS allow for possible identification of tumors
Read More...NWO has approved an application for the Center for Ultrasound Brain Imaging at Erasmus MC (CUBE) and awarded nearly 2.5 million euros for the realization of this new center. Understanding the brain is one of the largest challenges science is facing today. This new centre may fast-track this understanding. Within CUBE, scientists will use a
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