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Bijoy Kundu, PhD<\/p><\/div>\n

On March 13, 2024, the research of University of Virginia Associate Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging Bijoy Kundu, PhD<\/strong> received a $100,000 grant from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation in order to improve imaging technology for identifying important areas of the brain within epilepsy patients.<\/p>\n

Epilepsy affects 1.6% of the US population, but 30-40% of those seizures are not adequately controlled by medicine. For patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, it’s recommended to identify the seizure onset zone within the brain in order to perform surgery. But finding these targets can be difficult and invasive.<\/p>\n

It’s the reason behind the work of Dr. Kundu, in collaboration with UVA Professor of Neurology Mark Quigg, MD<\/strong>. They aim to develop an AI-powered method known as interictal Dynamic PET, or iD-PET, to locate seizure onset zones within patients and assist a successful surgical approach.<\/p>\n

“The iD-PET technique will change clinical practice,” said Dr. Kundu. “Rather than mapping the uptake and metabolism of glucose in the brain in a static fashion, it maps the rate of glucose uptake, metabolism, and decay. We expect this more sensitive imaging technique to increase the proportion of patients with identifiable ‘PET-positive’ lesions to allow more patients to undergo transformative epilepsy surgery.”<\/p>\n

The lab will use the funding of the Commonwealth Commercialization Fund grant to recruit more healthy control patients, streamline software, and work towards developing an easy-to-use, accessible toolkit.<\/p>\n

For more information about this grant, click here<\/a>. For more information about Dr. Kundu’s research, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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