MRI Spectroscopy / Ezine
Identification and characterisation of childhood cerebellar tumours by in vivo proton MRS
Date: Sep 22, 2008
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1H MRS has great potential for the clinical investigation of childhood brain tumours, but the low incidence in, and difficulties of performing trials on, children have hampered progress in this area.
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Bending MRI to diagnose joint disease
Date: Sep 1, 2008
Author: David Bradley
Magnetic resonance imaging could provide an early diagnosis of osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis, according to scientists speaking at the recent meeting of the American Chemical Society.
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An investigation of human brain tumour lipids by high-resolution magic angle spinning 1H MRS and histological analysis
Date: Aug 21, 2008
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NMR-visible mobile lipids are important biomarkers in the diagnosis of brain tumours and monitoring the effects of treatment response.
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Magnetic insights
Date: Aug 1, 2008
Author: David Bradley
A new MRI technique has been developed to allow physicists to see deep within tiny magnets. The technique could improve our understanding of magnetism at the fundamental level and lead to better computer hard drives and perhaps even new small-scale MRI instruments.
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Here comes colour
Date: Jul 1, 2008
Author: David Bradley
Not everything is black and white, perhaps with the exception of MRI. Aside from the artificial colours that can be added by computer, MRI is a technique of contrasts and greyscales. However, that could all change soon thanks to the ongoing development of microscopic magnetic particles by researchers in the US who hope to bring a little colour to MRI.
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Non-invasive detection of hippocampal sclerosis: correlation between metabolite alterations detected by 1H-MRS and neuropathology
Date: Jun 23, 2008
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In this paper, the authors assessed 1H-MRS as a screening tool for detection of hippocampal sclerosis in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
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MRI scans and mastectomy
Date: Jun 1, 2008
Author: David Bradley
MRI breast scans are associated with more mastectomies. That is the conclusion from a study by Mayo Clinic researchers in the USA. They have found that after an earlier, seven-year decline, there has been a sharp rise in the number of whole-breast mastectomies.
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Determining exercise-induced blood flow reserve in lower extremities using phase contrast MRI
Date: May 27, 2008
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The purpose of this research was to study the changes in limb blood flow during lower extremity exercise using phase contrast MRI in normal volunteers.
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Rewiring brains therapeutically
Date: May 1, 2008
Author: David Bradley
US researchers have used MRI studies to demonstrate that a form of rehabilitation therapy for treating the effects of stroke causes the brain to repair itself.
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Fast nosological imaging using canonical correlation analysis of brain data obtained by two-dimensional turbo spectroscopic imaging
Date: Apr 28, 2008
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A new fast and accurate tissue typing technique has recently been successfully applied to prostate MR spectroscopic imaging data. This technique is based on canonical correlation analysis, a statistical method able to simultaneously exploit the spectral and spatial information characterizing the MRSI data.
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