http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. TU/e and the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam have together developed a technique that allows detailed 3D imaging of complex muscle structures of patients. It also allows muscle damage to be detected very precisely. This new technique opens the way to much better and more patient-friendly diagnosis of muscular diseases. It also allows accurate, non-invasive muscle examinations among top athletes. Martijn Froeling will receive a PhD for this research at TU/e today, Monday 29 October. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-mri-technique-imaging-complex-muscle.html Medical research Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:50:05 EST news270807335 Scientists in Australia have devised a method of scanning lab rats' brains as they scurry about freely, eliminating the need for anaesthesia or forced restraint, a report said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-scientists-rat-pet-scan.html Medical research Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:16:25 EST news259352173 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the University have developed a new X-ray technique to identify tissue fibres in the heart that ensure the muscle beats in a regular rhythm. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-rhythm-heart-revealed-3d-x-ray.html Cardiology Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:30:33 EST news254647805 MILWAUKEE - After already having been through breast cancer treatment, Michelle Luckiesh did not think twice when doctors at Waukesha Memorial Hospital told her they had a new mammography device that may be able to detect tumors earlier than with conventional mammography. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-3d-technology-traditional-mammography.html Other Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:40:01 EST news254136912 Beyond the personal tragedy of chronic alcoholism there is heartbreak in the biological sense, too. Scientists know severe alcoholism stresses the heart and that mitochondria, the cellular energy factories, are especially vulnerable to dysfunction. But they don't know the precise mechanism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-heart-probing-chronic-alcoholism-cellular.html Cardiology Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:20:01 EST news249221198 Tumor-targeted bioluminescent bacteria have been shown for the first time to provide accurate 3D images of tumors in mice, further advancing the potential for targeted cancer drug delivery, according to a study published in the Jan. 25 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-bacteria-effectively-tumors-enabling-tumor.html Cancer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:15 EST news246710951 Neurons in the brain play a role as an electric wire conveying an electrical signal. Because this electric wire is connected with various joints (synapse), various brain functions can occur. A neuron which has dendritic trees on it, receives the signals with many synapses located on those dendritic trees, and carries out functions by combining the received signals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-d-reconstructed-image-neural-dendritic.html Medical research Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:22:23 EST news235124523 Japanese researchers at RIKEN have developed a ground-breaking new aqueous reagent which literally turns biological tissue transparent. Experiments using fluorescence microscopy on samples treated with the reagent, published this week in Nature Neuroscience, have produced vivid 3D images of neurons and blood vessels deep inside the mouse brain. Highly effective and cheap to produce, the reagent offers an ideal means for analyzing the complex organs and networks that sustain living systems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-chemical-reagent-mouse-brain-transparent.html Neuroscience Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:41:45 EST news234002470