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A in The Telegraph covers the advances made by 果冻影院鈥檚 researchers to save potentially 鈥渢housands of babies鈥� from brain damage and death due to neonatal encephalopathy. The use of the miniCYRIL device, developed by Dr Ilias Tachtsidis鈥� research group in the Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, was last year. 听

Dr Tachtsidis told The Telegraph, 鈥淲e had to develop a device that could provide a marker of brain injury severity very early after birth, allowing the clinical team treating the infant to understand the extent of injury.

鈥淭he measurement has to be non-invasive, harmless, work in real time and be at the baby鈥檚 cot side. This was a true engineering challenge that led us to develop miniCYRIL, a compact, low-cost instrument that can be used by medical staff with minimum training.鈥�

The instrument created by Dr Tachtsidis and the Multimodal Spectroscopy research group is a miniature broadband near-infrared spectroscopy (bNIRS) system which measures brain tissue changes that might indicate injury in the brain.

The Telegraph article also featured Professor Nicola Robertson of 果冻影院鈥檚 Institute for Women鈥檚 Health, who said that 鈥渋t is crucial to be able to detect babies at high risk of adverse outcome early on and such markers produced by miniCYRIL will allow us to target the artillery of other therapies to help to improve outcomes in babies with neonatal encephalopathy.鈥�

Prof Robertson further added in the article, 鈥渘eonatal encephalopathy is a leading cause of disability in the UK, and worldwide is responsible for more than a quarter of newborn deaths.鈥�

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