News tagged with imaging agent


New imaging technique tracks cancer-killing cells over prolonged period

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Coaxing a patient's own cells to hunt down and tackle infected or diseased cells is a promising therapeutic approach for many disorders. But until now, efforts to follow these specially modified cells after their reintroduction ...


Bevacizumab better than gold standard imaging at detecting tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have developed a new imaging agent that can be used in scanning for tumours, and which gives a much clearer and more precise image than existing methods. The discovery has the potential to revolutionise pre-clinical ...





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Holey Nanoparticles Create New Tumor Imaging and Therapeutic Agent

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Using a polymer that has both water-soluble and water-insoluble regions, a team of investigators from the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has created a nanoparticle shaped like a bialy, a close relative ...


A potential new imaging agent for early diagnosis of most serious skin cancer

A potential new imaging agent for early diagnosis of most serious skin cancer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Scientists in Australia are reporting development and testing in laboratory animals of a potential new material for diagnosing malignant melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. Their study is scheduled ...


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 ...


Better insight into brain anatomical structures

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 15, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Magnetic resonance imaging is a very effective method for revealing anatomical details of soft tissues. Contrast agents can help to make these images even clearer and allow physiological processes to be followed in real time. ...


Better Insight into Brain Anatomical Structures

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 29, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Magnetic resonance imaging is a very effective method for revealing anatomical details of soft tissues. Contrast agents can help to make these images even clearer and allow physiological processes to be followed in real time. ...


New fluorescent label sheds light on brain diseases

Chemistry /

created Nov 05, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In an advance that may speed progress toward new diagnostic tests for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (AD), scientists in New York are reporting development of the first direct method for measuring a key ...


Cobalt Nanoparticles Boost Imaging Sensitivity and Edge Detection

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a very sensitive technique for detecting small tumors in the body, but it is not as good at identifying the edges of a tumor. Photoacoustic imaging tomography ...


Better MRI scans of cancers made possible

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher Kristina Djanashvili has developed a substance that enables doctors to get better MRI scans of tumours. On Tuesday 13 January, Djanashvili will be soon awarded a doctorate by TU Delft, Netherlands, for her work ...


'Smart bomb' drug delivery may increase effectiveness

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers may have found a way to combine imaging with chemotherapy in a single agent for the treatment of prostate cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting ...


Four-in-One: Targeted Gene Suppression in Cancer Cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diagnosis and treatment in one go: Korean researchers led by Tae Gwan Park and Jinwoo Cheon have developed the basis for a four-in-one agent that can detect, target, and disable tumor cells while also making ...



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