Research Focus and Current Projects
Our research program is dedicated to advancing interventional and endovascular imaging techniques for the treatment of neurological and vascular disease. We are developing technologies and procedures that improve the precision, safety, and accessibility of minimally invasive therapies across a range of clinical environments.
Current areas of investigation include:
- Developing tools to perform endovascular stroke treatment under 3T MRI guidance so stroke patients can be treated in any 3T MRI scanner or in a combined X-ray/MRI (XMR) suite
- Designing, prototyping, and testing endovascular devices in vitro and in vivo, the latter at our co-located large animal surgical and imaging facility
- Developing remote controlled endovascular catheter systems and testing them in vitro and in vivo in both the x-ray and 1.5T MRI environments
- Improving sensitivity and safety of endovascular MR imaging at 3T
- Novel endovascular therapies for stroke, aneurysms, vascular malformations, and tumors of the brain, spine, head and neck
- Translational research on interventional MRI and endovascular therapy, including large animal studies and human studies
- Evaluating treatment of image-guided acute ischemic stroke in patients with wake-up stroke or uncertain time of stroke onset
- Multicenter international clinical trials evaluating of endovascular stents and flow diverters for the treatment of brain aneurysms
- Evaluating endovascular embolectomy devices for stroke treatment
- Evaluation of advanced applications in clinical x-ray angiography