News tagged with quantitative imaging


New study confirms immune cells are guided by gradients

(Medical Xpress)—A group of researchers in Austria and Switzerland has for the first time proven that immune cells migrate along chemical concentration gradients. This process has long been assumed but ...

Immunology created Jan 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries: Researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale

To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from the behavior of a single tumor cell in ...

Medical research created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Molecular imaging 'sees' inside coronary arteries to measure disease

Patients with cardiovascular disease will now benefit from a powerful new molecular imaging tool to detect disease in the main arteries supplying oxygen to the heart, say researchers presenting studies at the Society of Nuclear ...

Cardiology created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0