Research Areas: Blood Oxygenation, Cancer, Head/Neck Cancer, Nicotine Level, Radiation Therapy Biotechnology, Tobacco, Tumor Blood Flow
Departments: Biomedical Engineering
Primary Investigator: Guoqiang Yu
Treatment with radiation or chemo-radiotheraPY is the standard therapy for head and neck cancers but this
treatment is well known to be less efficacious in patients with hypoxic tumors. Furthermore, cancer therapy
may alter tumor physiological status, t