Publications by authors named "K M Tichauer"

Objective: To investigate retinal vascular permeability mapping as a potential biomarker for diabetic retinopathy in subjects with diabetes with no signs of retinopathy and with mild nonproliferative retinopathy.

Design: This is a case-control study.

Subjects: Participants included 7 healthy controls, 22 subjects with diabetes mellitus and no clinical signs of retinopathy (DMnoDR), and 7 subjects with mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR).

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Subcutaneous microbubble administration in connection with contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging is showing promise as a noninvasive and sensitive way to detect tumor draining sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in patients with breast cancer. Moreover, there is potential to harness the results from these approaches to directly estimate cancer burden, since some microbubble formulas, such as the Sonazoid used in this study, are rapidly phagocytosed by macrophages, and the macrophage concentration in a lymph node is inversely related to the cancer burden. This work presents a mathematical model that can approximate a rate constant governing macrophage uptake of Sonazoid,, given dynamic CEUS Sonazoid imaging data.

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A feature issue is being presented by a team of guest editors containing papers based on studies presented at the Optical Molecular Probes, Imaging and Drug Delivery conference as part of the Optica Biophotonics Congress in Vancouver, Canada from April 24-27, 2023.

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: Small molecule drugs such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) targeting tumoral molecular dependencies have become standard of care for numerous cancer types. Notably, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) TKIs (e.g.

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