Stanford researchers weigh risks vs. benefits of self-referred body scanning
..., Illes added, is the ability to join a structural scan with a functional scan. "Parents might be concerne...rk, so they'll go to an imaging center for a brain scan to try to find out why." Similarly, scanning technology could be used to screen airline passengers f...Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: Society of Nuclear Medicine publishes new book
...ar cardiology field, including normal and abnormal scan patterns. Organized into logical and concise chapters, it is not only suitable for nuclear cardiology courses, but it can be used as a study guide for board examinations as well. Both Crawford and Husain are highly respected among their peers in the ...Short-term dyslexia treatment strengthens key brain regions
...ol instruction. The reading tests during the brain scan measured the ability of the children to decide whether certain letter combinations could stand for certain sounds (for example, could "ow" and "oa" make the same sound?) and whether certain letter patterns in words created meaningful relationships be...Physics and medicine in San Diego
...ore detailed information provided by the breast CT scan will result in earlier detection of breast cancer,...orbs errant radiation. A study that simulated a CT scan of a pregnant woman showed that ingesting a 40 percent solution of barium sulfate would decrease th...Laser measurements reveal biological basis of distance perception
...ance to each of millions of point in a scene -- to scan about a hundred real scenes in the Duke Forest, on the Duke campus and inside campus buildings. These distance data were fed into a computer to analyze the distance to the multitude of points in the scenes. Their purpose was to discover the natural ...CT in the emergency room: Are CT examinations overused?
... The patient's records and the request for the CT scan by the referring physician were reviewed to determ...fore the CT examination; 50-60% of the time the CT scan confirmed the suspected diagnosis, says Dr. Lee. "This yield is just about right. If the yield was...Parkinsons symptoms indicated for first time on pet scans of brains of living patients
...ting radioisotopes. An individual undergoing a PET scan is administered a radiopharmaceutical a drug containing a radioactive isotope specifically formulated to be taken up by specific groups of nerve cells intravenously. "PET scans are important in helping us develop methods to make an earlier diagnosi...Children's hospital safeguards patient safety
...really user friendly." With the new system, nurses scan the barcode of the medication, the patient ID bracelet and their own ID badge. MedPoint verifies the "five rights" of medication administration--right patient, drug, dose, time and route of administration (oral, injection or intravenous)--and checks ...Symphony of memory formation revealed
...m short-term memories. The UCLA study used fMRI to scan the brains of volunteers as they viewed information using goggles with a TV display. Researchers first introduced pairs of names and faces in sequence and instructed volunteers to learn which face corresponded to which name. In order to distract the ...Study points to methods for safe drug dispensing via computer
... bar-coded wristbands. Nurses scan a patient's wristband, and a ... save time. For instance, bar codes didn't always scan properly on the first try. To avoid re-scanning a patient ...UCLA professors James Heath, Gary Small named to Scientific Americans list of 50 visionaries
...isease, as well as the first to discover a new PET scan compound that may provide definitive diagnosis and treatment monitoring of living Alzheimer's patients....Screening men for aortic aneurysms justified
...gramme could consist of a single aortic ultrasound scan at age 65 would be supported by our results."...Seeing into the Alzheimers brain
...d the senses are not usually affected, so if a PET scan shows damage in those areas, a different disorder may be to blame. Foster hopes that as evidence from research builds, PET scanning will become a part of the standard procedure for diagnosing patients with suspected Alzheimer's disease, and that ins...Brain study of back pain sufferers yields intriguing results
..., the lower-back pain patients were examined by CT scan to rule out mechanical causes of their pain. Then they, the fibromyalgia patients and the healthy control subjects had their brains scanned by fMRI for more than 10 minutes while a small, piston-controlled device applied precisely calibrated, rapidly...Schizophrenia has different sub-types linked to problems in different parts of the brain
...nd subsequent item recognition. Using MRI and PET scan images, they also studied the brain anatomy and metabolism of participants. Analysis of the data revealed three clusters of patients with significantly different profiles of memory and brain measures. This means that there may be several different r...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
...echnology -- spiral computerized tomography, or CT scan -- begins this year at 30 sites including UCSF, it...th to determine if screening people with either CT scan or chest x-ray before they have symptoms can reduce deaths from lung cancer. The National Lung Scre...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
...more ADHD siblings, the investigators were able to scan the entire human genome, containing some 35,000 genes, to focus in on specific regions likely to contain a gene contributing to ADHD. In their initial scan, several regions showed modest support for a risk gene; however, in a follow-up study of one r...Brain shrinkage in ADHD not caused by medications
...t the cause. Indeed, in this first major study to scan previously never-medicated patients, they found "s...uration." Launched in l991, the study used MRI to scan 89 male and 63 female patients ages 5-18, with ADHD, and 139 age- and gender-matched controls, child...Cardiac MRI provides new 3-D images of beating heart
... better view of my heart," Pressley said. "The MRI scan they performed at Duke showed that there was very little muscle death. That meant there was a good chance that angioplasty could restore function to my heart. It is a great relief to know that I can have the procedure." Duke cardiologists estimate th...'Slice' scanner latest advance in early detection of heart disease
...ms with consistent image interpretability and long scan time. The latest versions of MSCT are able to detect up to 16 images at once, with increased speed and accuracy. Nieman and colleagues compared the latest 16-slice scanner to conventional angiography. They performed MSCT and then angiography on 59 ...