Nanoparticles illuminate brain tumors for days under MRI
PORTLAND, Ore. - A research team from Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center is demonstrating some of the world's first clinical applications for nanometer-size particles in the brain.... ...The OHSU scientists have shown that an iron oxide nanoparticle as small as a virus can outline not only brain tumors under magnetic resonance imaging, but also oth...Alice S. Weissfeld wins 2004 bioMrieux Sonnenwirth Award
WASHINGTON, DC--APRIL 23, 2004--Alice S. Weissfeld, Ph.D., President and Chief Operating Officer of Microbiology Specialists Incorporated, Houston, Texas, will receive the bioMrieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Given in memory of Alexander Sonnenwirth and supported by bioMrieux, Inc., the award honors Weissfeld for her...USAMRIID scientist Peter B. Jahrling elected fellow by AAAS
Peter B. Jahrling of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) has been elected Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This honor is bestowed upon members by their peers. ... ...As part of the Section on Medical Sciences, Jahrling was elected AAAS Fellow for development of animal models using authentic smallpox, Ebola, and Las...'Bat saliva' drug and new MRI techniques offer hope for acute stroke treatment
MADISON - The use of a synthetic drug derived from the saliva of vampire bats appears to extend the time window for treatment of acute ischemic strokes from the current three to nine hours after symptoms first appear, according to the results of a new international study. ......The results of the DIAS trial (Desmoteplase in Acute ischemic Stroke), to be presented Feb. 5 at the International Strok...New findings could lead to higher resolution functional MRIs
Berkeley - New findings by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, could significantly improve the resolution of scans from functional magnetic resonance imaging, one of neuroscience's most powerful research tools to date.... ...Functional MRI (fMRI) is a non-invasive procedure that detects increased levels of blood flow into certain areas of the brain to infer neural activity. But...NIH study shows MRI provides faster, more accurate way to diagnose heart attacks
Advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology can detect heart attack in emergency room patients with chest pain more accurately and faster than traditional methods, according to a new study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Published in the February 4 issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, the findings suggest that more patients...MRI technique lets researchers directly compare monkey and human brains
COLUMBUS, Ohio Researchers have developed a new way to... use a decade-old imaging method to directly compare the brains of... monkeys with those of humans. Their report appeared in the... journal Science. ...... The method uses functional... Magnetic Resonance Imaging......MRI studies provide new insight into how emotions interfere with staying focused
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have shown how emotions such as fear or horror travel along separate paths through the brain and are more likely than simple distractions to interfere with a person's efforts to focus on a task such as driving. ...Using functional MRI to watch human brains in action, the researchers showed that emotional stimuli and "attentional functions" like driving...New MRI technology provides detailed views of brain development, response to injury
. Researchers will convene at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to discuss how to make the best uses of a new technology that allows researchers and physicians to make detailed, three-dimensional maps of the networks through which various parts of the brain communicate. The technology, devised by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), also...CWRU physicists invent "supershielding" for MRI devices
.CLEVELAND--The work of a thief is not the only way to rob you of the use of your credit cards and computers. Magnetic.fields can zap the power from life's modern conveniences.. .Robert Brown and Shmaryu Shvartsman, physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University,.have created an armor they call "supershielding." The physicists will report on their new invention...MRI Scans Following Heart Attack Could Determine Future Health
. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart after a heart attack may.help determine which patients do well and which ones will later suffer.complications such as recurrent heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke.or death, according to a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers.. "This technology could be a cost-effective means to identify which.patients need to be monitor....WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Biomedical researchers at Purdue University are using a one-of-a-kind .test apparatus to obtain physiological information that will enable developers of .Magnetic Resonance Imaging to produce faster, more precise MRI scans without causing discomfort to patients. ."Faster scanning techniques allow doctors to gather images from parts of the body .that are currently hard to...