New scanning technique helps people with brain tumors
CFIN researcher Kim Mouridsen is co-author on an article just published in Nature Medicine on how a new scanning technique - Vessel Architectural Imaging - may help determining the best way to treat brain tumors.
A newly developed scanning technique, called Vessel Architectural Imaging is an important step towards a better treatment of patients with agressive brain tumors. The new technique is developed in a collaboration between Danish and American researchers. Kim Mouridsen, Associate Professor and leader of the research group Neuroimaging Methods at MINDLab, Aarhus University has worked with researchers from Harvard Medical School on developing the Vessel Architectural Imaging.
The treatment of patients with agressive brain tumors is often a medicine that inhibits growth of new blood vessels, since the most agressive tumors constantly try to create new vessels in order to get oxygen. The treatment provides relief of the symptoms but can also increase the efficiency of radiation therapy because the oxygenation is improved.
Kim Mouridsen says:
With a better knowledge about how the blood vessels in the brain tumor looks we will be able to get one step closer to explaining the mechanisms that play an important role in the treatment of brain tumors. And exactly the understanding of these mechanisms is the basis for developing and improving the treatment of brain tumors in general.
Read more about the development of Vessel Architectural Imaging (in Danish)