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Global-Innovation Exchange
United States
Joseph Culver of Washington University in St Louis in the U.S. has developed a portable optical neuroimaging technology (high density diffuse optical tomography [HD-DOT]) to assess the effects of malnutrition on brain function in young children in Columbia. Magnetic resonance imaging is currently used to quantify brain development, but this is expensive, not portable, and requires highly trained personnel, making it impractical for low resource settings where malnutrition is common.
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Last update: October 05, 2023