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The National Science Foundation has granted $1.1 million to a collaboration of medical and engineering researchers at UT Austin to use computer modeling
for controlling a heat-based treatment for prostate cancer.
J. Tinsley Oden, professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics and director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and
Sciences, is the principal investigator of the team involving colleagues in the College of Engineering and at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The experimental treatment approach they will study involves threading an optical fiber inside a tumor within the prostate gland, and using the heat
generated at the fiber's tip to destroy cancer cells nearby.
The three-year grant will allow Oden and colleagues to create computer models of bio-heat transfer to predict the outcome of laser therapy. The assessment
will also involve visualizing treatments as they progress using 3D, computer-generated images to determine the best settings for laser devices.
"We're going to predict how long into a treatment all of the cancerous cells have reached the required minimum temperature to be eradicated and,
simultaneously, minimize damage to healthy cells," said Oden, an associate vice president for research at the university. "This involves a
feedback control system, all built on computer simulation."
If too little heat is applied, some cancer cells will survive and potentially become deadly again. Too much heat, and an excess number of healthy cells
die unnecessarily in the prostate gland or in nearby tissues.
"We're hopeful this research will ultimately lead to a new, minimally invasive treatment for prostate cancer, which is the most common cancer found in
American men," said Ken Diller, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin.
Diller, a co-principal investigator in the project, will help oversee the university's participation in the study on two campuses. Dr.
Chandrajit Bajaj, who holds the ICES Chair in Computational Visualization, also is a co-investigator
on the project.
Animation Festival at Siggraph 2005
Please click here to download the movie in AVI format.
Protein synthesis is a highly orchestrated process whereby mRNA is translated
into proteins by ribsomes, massive molecular machines. This animation depicts
the three stages of proteins synthesis, initiation, elongation, and
termination, using accurate representations of the involved molecules. The
final version was accepted to the computer animation festival at Siggraph 2005.
A link to the submitted animation(MPEG, 94MB) is available
here.
If you want to use this movie for academic purpose, you are free to do so and please send a short email
(ccv@ices.utexas.edu) telling us about
purported use. Of course any suggestions, criticisms, and/or words of encouragements are very welcome.
Copyright © Center for Computational Visualization, University of Texas at Austin.
13th IMR's Best Student Poster trophy comes home
CVC has won the Best Student Poster cup from 13th International Meshing Roundtable, Williamburg, VA, USA, Sep. 19-22, 2004.
"Tetrahedral Finite Element Meshing for
Biomolecules"(12MB) is co-authored by Yongjie
(Jessica) Zhang, Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Zeyun Yu, Yuhua Song, Deqiang Zhang, Nathan A. Baker, and J. Andrew McCammon.
CVC also presented another poster "Finite Element Meshing
for Cardiac Analysis"(11MB) on 13th
International Meshing Roundtable, which is welcomed by audience. The poster is co-authored by Yongjie (Jessica) Zhang,
Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Thomas J. R. Hughes, Wing Kam Liu, Grace Chen, Xiaodong Wang, Marius Lysaker, and Christian Tarrou.
Cover Images from CVC
An image from CVC is on a recent journal cover.
ACM Transactions on Graphics. Volume 22, No 1 (January 2003)
Recent Promotional collateral
- A pdf describing Automatic Pulmonary
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- A pdf describing Generation and Analysis of
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- A pdf describing Interactive
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- A pdf describing Multiresolution and
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- Our handout on our Grid Enabled
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- A pdf describing our accomplishments in the "Remote Visualization of Large Data".
- A pdf describing two of our latest
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Interactive Rendering of Adaptive Mesh Refinement data".
Research Partnership with Compaq Computer Corporation
Compaq Computer Corporation Press Release
Compaq Virtual Press Kit
UT Office of Public Affairs Press Information
Press Conference with President Bush & Tech Industry Leaders
Bush Surrounds Himself with Leaders of Technology Industry
President-Elect Bush Answers Questions on the Economy
President-Elect Bush Finishes a Meeting
President-Elect Bush Answers Questions
On Campus 1/25/01 Article
On Campus 1/25/01 Article (PDF)
Grand Opening
UT Office of Public Affairs Press Information
On Campus 10/17/00 Article
On Campus 10/17/00 Article (PDF)
Scalable Visualization Toolkits for Brains to Bays
Computational Cosmology
Visualization Tools to Guide Scientists
Through Their Simulation Results
FRONT COVER : Designing Personalized Hearing Devices
Designing Personalized Hearing Devices
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