Researchers find brain stiffness measurements are reliable predictors of neurodegenerative diseases
Some say you're only as old as you feel. Others say you're as young as you think. But how old is your brain really?
Mar 24, 2025
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Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures: News and Research on Elasticity Imaging Techniques
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Researchers use waves to quantify blood vessels' architecture
Researchers from the King's College London School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, along with partners at the University of Michigan, The Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (France), Norway, ...
Jul 31, 2024
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Using deep learning techniques to improve liver disease diagnosis and treatment
Hepatic, or liver, disease affects more than 100 million people in the U.S. About 4.5 million adults (1.8%) have been diagnosed with liver disease, but it is estimated that between 80 and 100 million adults in the U.S. have ...
Jul 17, 2024
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MRE-liver stiffness measure better for varices in NAFLD cirrhosis
For patients with obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) compensated cirrhosis (CC), liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is significantly higher than acoustic radiation ...
May 8, 2024
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Brain movement measured for clues to prevent, reduce injury
When the human head experiences any kind of movement—from nodding yes or no to heading a soccer ball or being jolted in a car crash—the brain moves inside the skull, leading to deformation of the tissue. Such deformations ...
Jul 27, 2023
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Wearable ultrasound patch provide non-invasive deep tissue monitoring
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a stretchable ultrasonic array capable of serial, non-invasive, three-dimensional imaging of tissues as deep as four centimeters below the surface ...
May 3, 2023
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New research explores non-invasive MR elastography as an alternative to liver biopsy in obese patients
Three-dimensional MR elastography (MRE) scans have demonstrated the potential to assess both liver fibrosis and inflammation simultaneously. However, researchers face challenges in that current 3D MRE approaches typically ...
Mar 16, 2023
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