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Heads up: American football collision course
Date: Aug 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
A new measure of the effects of cranial impact in American football players can be used in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neurological testing to assess the cumulative effect on players before and after the American football season.
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Journal Highlight: Inorganic nanocrystals as contrast agents in MRI: synthesis, coating and introduction of multifunctionality
Date: Jul 22, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Methods to synthesize inorganic nanocrystals and make them biocompatible and active for MRI are reviewed, with examples of the various approaches and efforts to make them multifunctional.
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Back to basics: MRI reveals spinal infection
Date: Jul 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the site of injection could be used to identify fungal spinal or paraspinal infection
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Journal Highlight: DCE-MRI: a review and applications in veterinary oncology
Date: Jun 24, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
This review summarises the derivation of the models developed to assess dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI), its applications to the study and treatment of human and animal cancer, and challenges in reproducibility.
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Aging enzyme: MRI reveals depressing link
Date: Jun 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Magnetic resonance imaging has revealed a possible protective role for the enzyme telomerase in processes associated with the development of depression in aging patients. The study investigated untreated, depressed participants and found that the size of the hippocampus, a brain structure that is critical for learning and memory, was associated with the amount of telomerase activity measured in the white blood cells.
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Journal Highlight: 3T-MRI analysis of epidermis and dermis moisturizing using the T2-mapping sequence
Date: May 20, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
T2-mapping in MRI has been applied to assess basal free water content of the epidermis and dermis and to search for an increase in free water content after applying a moisturizing cream.
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Psychopathic wiring: Disturbed differences
Date: May 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
Psychopathy is characterised as a personality disorder in which the afflicted lacks empathy for other people, feels no remorse for their actions regardless of whether they cause harm and in extreme cases leads to criminality. Now, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to reveal that the "circuitry" in the brains of criminal psychopaths is different from that in others.
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Journal Highlight: Frontal brain expansion during development using MRI and endocasts: Relation to microcephaly and Homo floresiensis
Date: Apr 22, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
To determine if modern human brain evolution occurs via an expansion of the frontal lobes, the MRI scans of 118 living infants, children, and adolescents were reviewed and the frontal width, maximal cerebral width and maximal cerebral length were measured and compared.
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Gut instinct: Stem cell reactions
Date: Apr 1, 2013
Author: David Bradley
In research funded by Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and with support from the Fondazione Citta della Speranza, researchers have demonstrated that stem cells taken from amniotic fluid can be used to restore gut structure and function following intestinal damage in rodents. The new work published in the journal Gut uses magnetic resonance imaging and could pave the way to a new form of cell therapy that is able to reverse serious damage caused by inflammation in the intestines of babies.
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Journal Highlight: High-resolution MRI of early-stage mouse embryos
Date: Mar 24, 2013
Author: spectroscopyNOW
A method of imaging the mouse embryo from the early stages close to the onset of organogenesis uses a self-gated MRI protocol combined with image registration to obtain whole-embryo high-resolution 3D images.
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