News tagged with mri imaging


New research reveals exactly how the human brain adapts to injury

For the first time, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts ...

Neuroscience created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surgeons may use hand gestures to manipulate MRI images in OR

Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery.

Surgery created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surgery consultation common after MRI of the spine

(HealthDay)—Almost half of patients whose primary care physicians recommend a lumbosacral or cervical spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan go on to receive a surgical consultation, but few end up ...

Surgery created Jan 02, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers report progress in quest to create objective method of detecting pain

A method of analyzing brain structure using advanced computer algorithms accurately predicted 76 percent of the time whether a patient had lower back pain in a new study by researchers from the Stanford University School ...

Neuroscience created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Improving the development of new cancer models using an advanced biomedical imaging method

Scientists at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and the Moffitt Cancer Center, led by Dr. Robert Gillies, have demonstrated that an advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method can non-invasively evaluate the cellular ...

Cancer created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New predictive method can greatly reduce complications in hemodialysis of kidney patients

(Medical Xpress)—Approximately two million people around the world regularly undergo hemodialysis – blood purification outside the body – as a result of kidney failure. This usually involves creating a dialysis fistula ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High altitude climbers at risk for brain bleeds

New magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research shows that mountain climbers who experience a certain type of high altitude sickness have traces of bleeding in the brain years after the initial incident, according to a study ...

Neuroscience created Nov 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan firm offers 3D model of foetus

Expectant parents in Japan who can't wait to show the world what their baby will look like can now buy a three-dimensional model of the foetus to pass around their friends.

Other created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Novel breast screening technology increases diagnostic accuracy

The addition of three-dimensional breast imaging—a technology called tomosynthesis—to standard digital mammography significantly increases radiologists' diagnostic accuracy while reducing false positive recall rates, ...

Other created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experimental compound improves memory in mice with multiple sclerosis

Johns Hopkins researchers report the successful use of a form of MRI to identify what appears to be a key biochemical marker for cognitive impairment in the brains of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In follow-up experiments ...

Neuroscience created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Into the magnetic resonance scanner with a cuddly toy

For the first time, Bochum clinicians have been able to show on the basis of a large sample, that it is possible to examine children's heads in the MRI scanner without general anaesthesia or other medical sedation. In many ...

Other created Nov 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Migraines associated with higher incidence of brain lesions among women; effect on health uncertain

After nearly 10 years of follow-up of study participants who experienced migraines and who had brain lesions indentified via magnetic resonance imaging, women with migraines had a higher prevalence and greater ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Learning who's the top dog: Study reveals how the brain stores information about social rank

Researchers supported by the Wellcome Trust have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn ordinary information. The study provides clues as to how this information ...

Neuroscience created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MRI research sheds new light on nerve fibers in the brain

World-leading experts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging from The University of Nottingham's Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre have made a key discovery which could give the medical world a new tool for the improved ...

Medical research created Nov 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New MRI technique allows detailed imaging of complex muscle structures and muscle damage

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 ...

Medical research created Oct 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast