Closing Gaps in Health and Care

  • Urbana-Champaign researchers work to improve cancer imaging

    Jul 10, 2023 1:00 pm
    Researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and Prof. Viktor Gruev hold vials of new imaging agents developed by their research team that help surgeons to better see cancer tumors

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    • Researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and Prof. Viktor Gruev hold vials of new imaging agents developed by their research team that help surgeons to better see cancer tumors

    Doctors have used nanoparticles in cancer patients to locate tumors during imaging scans more easily. But they tend to collect in the liver, not on the tumor. A new approach developed at UIUC looked to solve this problem.