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Using Auto Industry Tools for Tumor TherapyProfessor puts
prototyping techniques to new, biomedical use Dr. Ali Kamrani,
founding director of the Design and Free Form Fabrication
Laboratory at UH and a former auto industry researcher, is
teaming up with Dr. Lei Dong, associate professor and deputy
research director of radiation physics at the University of
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, to develop predictive models
of tumors that hopefully will increase the accuracy of radiation
therapy. "We aim to better understand tumor deformations using
geometric and statistical models - rather than repetitive CT
scans," said Kamrani, an associate professor of industrial
engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering. "In this case,
patients will undergo a minimum number of CT scans, and the
radiation plans will be developed using the p