Q&A: Staying heart healthy during American Heart Month

February is American Heart Month—a perfect opportunity for members of the George Washington University community to take a closer look at our own cardiovascular care. GW Today spoke to Andrew Choi, co-director of multimodality cardiac imaging and associate professor of medicine and radiology in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (and a double GW alumnus) about what our hardworking hearts need this winter.

AI enhances brain imaging—optimizing tractography for surgical procedures

How can nerve pathways in the brain be visualized to improve the planning of complex surgeries? A research team from the Lamarr Institute and the University of Bonn, in collaboration with the Translational Neuroimaging Group at the Departments of Neuroradiology and Epileptology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), has investigated an AI-powered method that makes these reconstructions more precise. The study, recently published in NeuroImage: Clinical, could ultimately help make neurosurgical procedures safer.