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Quantum sensing is poised to reshape medical diagnostics – from rapid heart-attack assessment to wearable brain imaging – but translating the physics into practical medical devices is only just beginning. Patrick McGuire speaks with Dr Kit Yee Au-Yeung, a member of the American Heart Association’s science and technology advisory network; Dr Svenja Knappe, associate research professor at the University of Colorado; and Dr Celia Merzbacher, executive director of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium, to discover more.
o some, medical devices built with quantum sensors might seem like cutting-edge technology, but applications such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which relies on quantum mechanical effects in nuclear spins, have been commercially available for decades rather than being a brand-new phenomenon. While quantum sensing in medical devices isn’t a new phenomenon, a wave of recent advancements, some coupled with AI, are aiming
to deliver transformative change to medicine. Since spinning out from parent company Alphabet, SandboxAQ has been on a mission to transform healthcare and other industries through advanced quantum sensing platforms like CardiAQ, a magnetocardiography (MCG) device designed to provide rapid, non-invasive cardiac assessment using compact room-temperature quantum sensors that do not require cryogenic cooling or dedicated magnetic shielding.
“Cardiovascular disease is still the number-one killer despite all the funding that has been put into it,” says Dr Kit Yee Au-Yeung, part of the executive leadership team with the American Heart Association and GM of sensing at Sandbox. “With CardiAQ, my team is trying to do better heart attack decision-making.”
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