News tagged with mri imaging

Treatment for hip conditions should not rest solely on MRI scans

When it comes to treating people with hip pain, physicians should not replace clinical observation with the use of magnetic resonance images (MRI), according to research being presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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JQI cool nano loudspeakers could makes for better MRIs, quantum computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Harvard University has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain MRIs may provide an early diagnostic marker for dyslexia

Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study links brain activity to delusion-like experience

In a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), people with schizophrenia showed greater brain activity during tests that induce a brief, mild form of delusional thinking. This effect wasn't seen in ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MRI scan 'better' for heart patients

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan for coronary heart disease is better than the most commonly-used alternative, a major UK trial of heart disease patients has shown.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers link multiple sclerosis to different area of brain

Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects an area of the brain that controls cognitive, sensory and motor functioning ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Costly diagnostic MRI tests unnecessary for many back pain patients

(Medical Xpress) -- Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

From heterogeneous patient measurements towards earlier diagnosis in Alzheimer's disease

European PredictAD project, lead by Principal Scientist Jyrki Lotjonen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has developed a decision support tool for objective diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease. The tool compares ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New imaging agent has an appetite for dangerous prostate tumors

Non-invasive imaging detects prostate cancer earlier than ever before, but can't accurately distinguish between malignant and benign disease. According to Lawson Health Research Institute's Drs. John Lewis and Len Luyt, a ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

MRI may be noninvasive method to measure breast cancer prognosis

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging measures were associated with prognostic tumor markers, demonstrating the potential of magnetic resonance imaging for prediction of disease prognosis and stratification of patients ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Autism may involve disordered white matter in the brain

It's still unclear what's different in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but evidence from genetic and cell studies points to abnormalities in how brain cells (neurons) connect to each other. A study ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Self-referral leads to more negative exams for patients

Physicians who have a financial interest in imaging equipment are more likely to refer their patients for potentially unnecessary imaging exams, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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Psychopaths' brains show differences in structure and function

Images of prisoners' brains show important differences between those who are diagnosed as psychopaths and those who aren't, according to a new study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 84 | with audio podcast

Form and function: New MRI technique to diagnose or rule out Alzheimer's disease

On the quest for safe, reliable and accessible tools to accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found a new way of diagnosing and tracking ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

WTC workers exposed earlier to dust cloud have higher risk of atherosclerotic lesions

In the first study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate cardiovascular risk in World Trade Center (WTC) first responders, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that the responders who experienced ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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