News tagged with resonance imaging mri
Colombian guerrillas help scientists locate literacy in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 14, 2009 |
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A unique study of former guerrillas in Colombia has helped scientists redefine their understanding of the key regions of the brain involved in literacy. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish ...
A new scan for lung diseases
Oct 13, 2009 |
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People with chronic lung disease and asthma could soon be offered better treatment thanks to a new type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan being pioneered at The University of Nottingham.
Hyper-SAGE boosts remote MRI sensitivity
Oct 09, 2009 |
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A new technique in Magnetic Resonance Imaging dubbed "Hyper-SAGE" has the potential to detect ultra low concentrations of clincal targets, such as lung and other cancers. Development of Hyper-SAGE was led ...
Scans show learning 'sculpts' the brain's connections
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, ...
Pancreatic fat levels may help predict diabetes, researchers say
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Researchers have long suspected that overweight people tend to have large fat deposits in their pancreases, but they've been unable to confirm or calculate how much fat resides there because of the organ's ...
Robot's gentle touch aids delicate cancer surgery
Aug 21, 2009 |
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New, delicate surgery techniques to hunt for tumours could benefit from a lighter touch - but from a robot, rather than from a human hand. Canadian researchers have created a touchy-feely robot that detects tougher tumour ...
MRI may cause more harm than good in newly diagnosed early breast cancer
Aug 13, 2009 |
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A new review says using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) before surgery to assess the extent of early breast cancer has not been shown to improve surgical planning, reduce follow-up surgery, or reduce the risk of local recurrences. ...
Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Anorexic patients drastically reduce food intake and are often not capable of changing their behavior. This can lead to life-threatening weight loss. Using MRI technology, scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital have ...
Childhood adversity may affect processing in the brain's reward pathways
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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New research shows that childhood adversity is associated with diminished neural activity in brain regions implicated in the anticipation of possible rewards.
Smoking associated with more rapid progression of multiple sclerosis
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Patients with multiple sclerosis who smoke appear to experience a more rapid progression of their disease, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Neurology.
Biomarkers predict brain tumor's response to therapy
Jun 23, 2009 |
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A report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, highlights a new biomarker that may be useful in identifying patients with recurrent glioblastoma, or brain tumors, who would respon ...
UCF researcher developing computer program to detect, measure brain tumors
Jun 02, 2009 |
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The same techniques used to detect suspicious activity in airports, stadiums and other public places are now being used by the UCF researcher who invented them to find and measure potentially life-threatening brain tumors.
Mother-daughter breast density study points way to earlier cancer risk assessment
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A unique mother-daughter study that used magnetic resonance to measure breast density in younger women shows that percent of breast water could be linked to the risk of breast cancer in middle age and older.
First noninvasive technique to accurately predict mutations in human brain tumors
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Donald O'Rourke, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues, were able to accurately predict the specific genetic mutation that caused brain cancer in a group ...
Cobalt Nanoparticles Boost Imaging Sensitivity and Edge Detection
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(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 ...
