Noninvasive ultrasound treatment shrinks fibroids
...hor, Fiona M. Fennessy, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and staff radiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Uterine fibroids are benign growths of the muscle inside the uterus. According to the National Institutes of Health, at least 25 percent of women in the United...Radiologists tackle diagnosis of puzzling football injuries
...ead author of the study and associate professor of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania. At first, Dr. Towers suspected that the unusually high percentage of lateral meniscal tears was associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. ACL tears are fairly common among ...Diagnostic images show go-carts cause serious injuries to children
...said co-author Felix S. Chew, M.D., a professor of radiology at the University of Washington. The researchers studied the diagnostic images and medical records of 18 boys and girls admitted to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., for injuries caused by private-use go-carts. The average ag...Imaging shows similarities in brains of marijuana smokers, schizophrenics
...se," explained Dr. Ashtari, associate professor of radiology and psychiatry at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In the study, DTI was performed on 12 healthy, early adolescent males compared with 12 late adolescent males to show normal human brain development; 11 schizophrenic patients compared ...Coffee jump-starts short-term memory
...'s lead author, Florian Koppelsttter, M.D., Ph.D., radiology fellow at Medical University Innsbruck in Austria. Dr. Koppelsttter and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine the effects of caffeine consumption on brain activation in a network of modules subserving short-term me...MR-guided laser effective in treating liver tumors
...in the department of diagnostic and interventional radiology at the University of Frankfurt. "Laser treatment can be done on an outpatient basis under local anesthesia. Typically, the patient stays only a couple of hours, instead of a couple of weeks in the hospital after surgical liver resection," he said. La...'No sweat' CT-guided injection treats embarrassing hand condition
...tudy's lead author, Hugues Brat, M.D., head of the radiology department at Centre Hospitalier Hornu - Frameries, in Hornu, Belgium. Up to three out of every 100 people in the United States faces social and professional discomfort due to sweaty hands. The condition is caused by an overactivity of the sympatheti...Internet may be answer to mammography crisis
...n R. Melton, M.D., assistant clinical professor of radiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. "The ability to transmit mammograms over long distances could significantly help to solve the crisis in access to screening mammography, as well as improve the acc...New technology may help radiologists find more breast cancers
...n Poplack, M.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology and obstetrics and gynecology at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, N.H. A patient's experience is much the same for tomosynthesis as it is for a standard mammography exam. Tomosynthesis obtains digital data t...Pitt reports re-opening of carotid arteries in stroke has high success rate with stenting
...itz, M.D., associate professor of neurosurgery and radiology and director of the UPMC Center for Neuroendovascu...icine; and Charles A. Jungreis, M.D., professor of radiology and chair of radiology Temple University Hospital. According to the American Heart Association, stro...Magnetic probe successfully tracks implanted cells in cancer patients
... says Jeff Bulte, Ph.D., an associate professor of radiology at Hopkins' Institute for Cell Engineering who developed methods to optimally label cells with the clinically approved iron oxide particles. This new application of the probes -- already clinically approved for MRI scanning of the liver -- could dra...Clues to the progression of Alzheimer's disease revealed in brain imaging studies
...the brain," said Dr. Mathis, who is a professor of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-inventor of PIB. "Making use of this compound easier on both patients and researchers alike could help accelerate the pace of clinical trials of Alzheimer's disease." Alzheimer's is a debilita...Scientists work to discover how music training affects the brain
...id Jonathan Burdette, M.D., associate professor of radiology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. The research, conducted by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) Music Research Institute, was presented today at the 35th annual me...Hopkins study may change rules for treating heart failure
...ry three minutes. Heart function was monitored by radiology imaging, along with blood pressure, respiratory gases and fluid samples taken before and after testing. Differences between the heart failure group and the control group were observed early on in the study and at relatively low levels of exercise, ...Characteristic cardiac scar pattern predicts risk of fatal arrhythmias
...ist Henry Halperin, M.D., a professor of medicine, radiology and biomedical engineering at The Johns Hopkins Un...Lima, M.D., an associate professor of medicine and radiology at Hopkins. Lima notes that a patient with an ejection fraction of 60 percent has normal pumping a...EBCT scans trump angiography at detecting killer heart defect
...sot May-me-show-loo), M.D., assistant professor of radiology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and his team which included another radiologist and several cardiologists studied 28 adults at a heart hospital and imaging center in Istanbul, Turkey, who had undergone conventional X-ray angiography f...National funding goes to Johns Hopkins to advance research on stem cell therapies for heart attack
...and staff, including cardiologists, physiologists, radiology technicians and research nurses will be involved in the SCCT initiative, which will focus on two major projects. One of the five-year projects has already begun clinical trials. The second project continues with preclinical animal and laboratory re...Smoking seems to increase brain damage in alcoholics
...are smokers, according to Dieter Meyerhoff, PhD, a radiology researcher at SFVAMC and the principal investigato...smoke," says Meyerhoff, who also is a professor of radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. The study, which was published in the August 2005 ...Study shows new imaging tracer clarifies cause of chest pain up to 30 hours after pain stops
...sizian, M.D., professor of medicine and diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. "This probe provides a direct connection to the cause of the chest pain without requir...... for example medical letters, discharge summaries, radiology reports, etc. A new, generic WYSIWYM ("What you see is what you mean") interface that was developed by Professor Donia Scott's team at The Open University enables users to pose complex clinical queries in natural language and receive answers in plain...