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Researchers identify possible imaging method to stratify breast cancer without biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have discovered a possible way for malignant breast tumors to be identified, without the need for a biopsy. The findings were published online ahead of print in the Journal of ...


Elevated-risk women refuse MRI breast cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a new study published in the January issue of Radiology, 42 percent of women eligible for breast cancer screening with MRI declined to undergo the procedure.


CT: The first-line imaging choice of physicians for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computed tomography (CT), a highly accurate, readily available medical imaging technique, is the overwhelmingly preferred technique of emergency physicians and radiologists for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), according ...


Unindicated CT series result in unnecessary radiation exposure for patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A large proportion of patients who undergo abdominal/pelvic computed tomography (CT) receive unindicated and unnecessary additional image acquisition resulting in excess, avoidable radiation exposure, according to a study ...


The utility of EUS and CEH-EUS in the diagnosis of small pancreatic tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is a highly sensitive diagnostic method for the detection of small pancreatic carcinomas. Recently, there have been some reports describing the utility of contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS (CEH-EUS) ...


Use of 3-D imaging on patients with pancreatic carcinoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the field of hepatic imaging in the context of living liver donors and before complex partial liver resections, three-dimensional imaging of the liver, hepatic vessels and bile ducts has managed to become established in ...


Nobel Physics laureates undeserving, colleagues say: report

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Former colleagues of two American scientists who won the 2009 Nobel physics prize say the winners, Willard Boyle and George Smith, did not deserve the award, Canada's Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.


FDA researchers identify new MRI safety risk for patients with pacemakers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

FDA researchers have found that certain cardiac pacemakers may inadequately stimulate a patient's heart while undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan due to the magnetic pulses mixing with the electronic pulses ...


Marohn describes breakthrough imaging technology

Researchers are on the path to creating nano-MRI images

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers are devising methods to detect the magnetic fields of individual electrons and atomic nuclei, which they hope to use to make a nanoscale version of magnetic resonance imaging.


Highlight: California, Nevada Lakes Warming Rapidly

Highlight: California, Nevada Lakes Warming Rapidly

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new JPL study examines the impact recent variability in climate is having on the surface temperatures of large lakes in California and Nevada.



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