A team of researchers from ICFO and IrsiCaixa report on the development of a low-cost, portable, non-invasive device that uses light and saliva to test Covid-19 patients in less than 30 min. The results have shown that the device can detect very low concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 with a sensitivity of 91.2% and a specificity of 90%, similar to that of PCR but as fast as an antigen test.
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Severe COVID-19 patients suffer alterations on their tissue microcirculation (publication)
To investigate how COVID-19 could affect microcirculation, an international team of researchers led by ICFO put together a clinical study to monitor the endothelium of patients that had been admitted to different intensive care units (ICUs) around the world.
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Medical photonics to improve COVID-19 patients’ journey from intensive care to rehabilitation (new project)
Researchers from ICFO and Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí de Sabadell have been awarded a new project from la Fundació La Marató de TV3 where medical photonics technologies will be used to improve the understanding of the pathway to personalized ICU management and rehabilitation for COVID-19 patients.
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The response of blood flow to posture changes in stroke patients signals errors in brain autoregulation (publication)
An international team, led by ICFO and in collaboration with Hospital de Sant Pau and IIB-Sant Pau, has carried out a pooled analysis, combining the results of three studies about the cerebral blood flow in cerebrovascular disease patients.
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Consolidation of the Barcelona Medical Photonics Network (event)
February 18th marked the consolidation of the Barcelona Medical Photonics Network that promotes the research and development activities carried out in and around Barcelona through long-standing collaborations
between ICFO and its numerous clinical partners.
Update on technology and clinical studies with diffuse optics and ultrasound (webinar)
The consortium of the Horizon 2020 project LUCA presents the project results and an open discussion about the state-of-the-art and the future of the non-invasive screening and monitoring of disease with diffuse optics and medical ultrasound.
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