- Standardized validated clinical tasks for fMRI
- Standardized automated analysis
- Quick turn around
Clinical
Clinical
Every neurosurgeon, neurologist and radiotherapist should have access to location of functions in
the brain relative to brain lesions to assess the impact of potential treatment near eloquent cortex.
Mitigate patient risk
Brain tumors are increasingly treated as early as possible. Especially low-grade brain tumors are often best treated before they start to disrupt brain function. Often a tumor is located near brain areas that are important for daily function, posing a risk of collateral damage following treatment of the tumor.
Optimal treatment in those cases benefit from functional MRI scans. Analysis of functional MRI scans is rather complicated and is mostly performed only in larger hospitals.
Lack of standardized protocols, and threats to reliability of the results due to invisible but significant artifacts stand in the way of wide clinical application of functional MRI (fMRI).
Validated standard protocols
Braincarta has developed a method to take care of the analysis in a standardized, automated and certified manner.
Braincarta creates and validates standard protocols for image acquisition, and determines the reliability of fMRI brain activity maps using fully automated data analysis programs based on many years of experience in clinical context, combined with a large database of subjects.
Robust and validated fMRI data processing algorithms are incorporated in fully automated software specifically written for clinical application.
Technology to locate functions
Braincarta provides clinicians with the technology to locate functions in patients with brain disorders. Scans are performed locally at the customers Radiology Department, and Braincarta provides a detailed set of instructions for technicians, and tasks for the patient.
The data are analyzed on the protected network of Braincarta, after upload of the DICOM data via secure internet connection.
Product levels range from a PDF report on reliability of the data and fMRI activity superimposed on anatomy, to DICOM files with active foci that can be read into treatment planning software for neurosurgery (neuronavigation) or stereotactic radiotherapy. Braincarta does not provide hardware for stimulus presentation but can recommend off-the-shelf solutions.
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