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Indo-Canadian Collaboration for Medical Imaging R&D

Scientists from India and Canada are collaborating on the development of a new imaging technology focussed on brain tumours. The bilateral project—Improving the Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Tumours—is valued at almost US$1.7 million and aims to develop and commercialise software that will provide radiologists with enhanced automated imaging methods to detect and characterise brain tumours and enable accelerated assessment and treatment.

Leveraging $486,000 from ISTP Canada and additional funding from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in India, the team is tasked with creating a new imaging technology that automatically locates, maps and monitors tumour changes and combines MRI and PET image data into a single information-rich diagnostic tool.

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Biomedical Innovation:Thoughts activate the prosthetic arm

Michal Prywata, left, and Thiago Caires have started a company called Bionik Laboratories Inc. to take the AMO Arm and other biomedical technologies to market.
Michal Prywata, left, and Thiago Caires have started a company called Bionik Laboratories Inc. to take the AMO Arm and other biomedical technologies to market.

A prosthetic arm controlled by its user’s thoughts, invented by two Toronto students, is competing for funding to take it to market.

The Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm created by Ryerson University biomedical engineering students Michal Prywata and Thiago Caires has a headset that picks up electrical signals from the brain.

“When you think about a certain movement, the arm moves accordingly,” Prywata told CBC‘s As it Happens Monday.

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Watch 3-D Movie of your Own mind with a Camera Developed By Researchers

Toronto Western Hospital

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A team of doctors have written software that creates dynamic, real-time, three-dimensional colour movies of the brain.

“We usually think of cameras as looking out at the world. This is a new kind of camera. It gives you a window on your mind,” the Globe and Mail quoted Mark Doidge, from Toronto, as saying.

Dr. Mark Doidge, left, is in the process of attempting to map the human brain. Mechanical engineering student Art de Guzman, who is working for Doidge, wears a cap connected to 32 leads which measures surface voltage related to electrical brain activity during a demonstration at Doidge's Toronto iffice on January 27 2011. - Dr. Mark Doidge, left, is in the process of attempting to map the human brain. Mechanical engineering student Art de Guzman, who is working for Doidge, wears a cap connected to 32 leads which measures surface voltage related to electrical brain activity during a demonstration at Doidge's Toronto iffice on January 27 2011. | Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail

The “camera” adapts an algorithm known as eLORETA, amplifies EEG signals from 32 electrodes attached to the cerebral cortex, and converts them into colour-coded movies of neuronal activity.

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