QT Imaging Holdings has secured a third-year renewal of its five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI).
The study is a collaboration with the Department of Radiation Oncology, the Radiation Treatment Program at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Grainger College of Engineering.
The project's goal is to develop an accurate, quantitative, portable, safe, and repeatable breast imaging approach for early identification of the response of breast cancer patients to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. As part of this grant, the QTI Breast Acoustic CT System installed at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center earlier in 2024 collected high-resolution breast images from female patients with independent cancer biomarkers. Researchers tested the backscatter analysis method on in vivo breast imaging data.
The team will next incorporate the algorithms into the QTI image reconstruction flow through combined algorithms and apply AI and machine-learning techniques to yield an improved estimate of chemotherapy efficacy based on the quantitative biomarkers from QTI scan data and backscatter analysis.
