http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/21/innovative-neurology-method-developed-by-pakistani-expert.html
Re: Pakistani expert develops innovative neurology method
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now that would be great advancement in neurourgery and neurolgy if it works and is practical enough. Alot of times people are just scared of invasive procedures which prevents them from consulting doctors on time.
And most important of it all a Pakistani doing us proud MA 
Re: Pakistani expert develops innovative neurology method
proud Pakistanis!!! :) hats of to the expert! well done!
Re: Pakistani expert develops innovative neurology method
mA that’s so incredible and more because he’s a pakistani 
. Measuring the ICP in an non-invasive method. Could become an indispensible device in ER’s :k:
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Faisal M. Kashif was given the Peake Prize for work associated with his doctoral dissertation in the area of biomedical and electrical engineering, in which he focused on model-based monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) for patients with suspected or actual brain injury. ICP is a cardinal vital sign in a wide spectrum of brain pathologies, including traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, stroke, and brain tumors. However, current approaches to determining ICP are very invasive and require neurosurgical expertise, as they typically involve drilling a hole in the skull and placing a catheter or sensor at an appropriate location in the brain, with significant associated risks of infection and tissue damage. Dr. Kashif’s thesis developed a simple model to relate ICP to arterial blood pressure and cerebral blood-flow velocity waveforms, both of which can be measured noninvasively or minimally invasively. Using his model in conjunction with these two measurements, Dr. Kashif developed a framework — with associated computational algorithms — for noninvasive, patient-specific and calibration-free determination of ICP, and obtained very encouraging validation results on archived data collected from patients in neuro-critical care. Owing to the noninvasive nature of his approach, Dr. Kashif’s work could lead to such monitoring being available to a vastly larger pool of patients with different severity levels of traumatic brain injury or other types of concussion injuries. Currently, he is a postdoctoral associate in RLE’s Computational Physiology and Clinical Inference Group, extending his earlier work. He is also establishing a data-acquisition infrastructure in a Boston-area neurological intensive care unit, for prospective validation of his approach to noninvasive ICP monitoring. Dr. Kashif has presented his findings at the 2010 International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association, and at the ICP2010 conference in Germany, held once every three years to examine issues of brain monitoring.
The Helen Carr Peake Fund, which supports these awards, was established to honor the late wife of Professor William T. Peake. The selection of this year’s recipients was done by a committee consisting of Professor Dennis M. Freeman (MIT/RLE), Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro (MIT, Director RLE), Professor M. Charles Liberman (Harvard, Director EPL), Professor William T. Peake (MIT/RLE/EPL) and Professor John L. Wyatt (MIT/RLE).