Research Assistant
Mary Gates Scholar (2008, 2010)
Levinson Scholar (2008)
Computing Research Association Undergraduate Research Award Finalist (2009)
AMGEN Scholar (2009)
Computer Science 5th-year Masters, Spanish Minor
Rita is working on writing a program to simulate tumor growth in a 3D virtual brain. She is currently enhancing the existing model by taking into account the complex and anisotropic pathways of invasion of the human brain by incorporating information from diffuse tensor imaging (DTI) MRI. The ultimate goal is the development of the best patient-specific tool for predicting brain tumor growth and invasion in individual patients.
Published Abstracts
- Sodt R, Rockne R, Swanson KR, Kalet I. Simulation of Anisotropic Growth of Gliomas Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging. International Conference on Mathematical Biology and Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver July 2009.
- Sodt R, Rockne R, Swanson KR. Fighting Cancer with Math: A Patient-Specific Computational Model of Brain Tumor Growth. Council on Undergraduate Research: Posters on the Hill, Washington, D.C. April 2010.
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