Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...d appropriate backup from neurologists and a brain scanner available to help them diagnose and treat appropriate patients, they'd give the drug, called tPA. And if the risk of bleeding associated with tPA could be reduced, more physicians said they'd use it. The findings are from a newly published survey of ...Breast CT reaches clinical testing: May improve on mammography
...ts or in women with breast implants. The breast CT scanner takes images of virtual "slices" of the breast -- about 300 images per breast. Computers then assemble these images into highly detailed, three-dimensional pictures that provide a more unobstructed view of breast tissues than can be seen on mammograp...Spinoff company receives $2.5 million NIH grant to build prototype scanner
...titutes of Health (NIH) to build a next-generation scanner for the early diagnosis of breast cancer, image-gu...tronic component companies to build the first CBCT scanner prototype. Excell Partners, Inc., formerly University Technology Partners (UTP), Inc., and the Unive...Heart scan surprises: CT reveals many non-heart problems, too
... who get their hearts scanned with a high-speed CT scanner may get a shocking surprise: a diagnosis of a serious problem that has nothing to do with their heart. New research from the University of Michigan shows that 43 of 98 patients who had a CT heart scan to look for clogged arteries were also found to h...Computed tomography has potential to offer accurate, safer method for detecting artery disease
...oth invasive coronary angiography and MSCT using a scanner with 16 detector rows. The researchers found that compared with invasive coronary angiography for detection of significant lesions (greater than 50 percent stenosis [narrowing]), segment-based sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predi...Study explains why up to eight percent of cancers go undetected
...rsity Hospital currently has the region's only PET scanner with 16-slice CT capability, enabling it to more r...cy. By combining CT and PET technologies, a PET/CT scanner allows physicians to accurately merge two distinct radiologic images into one image of a patient's w...Northwestern Memorial Hospital installs 64-Slice CT scanner, now available for clinical use
...ng symptoms associated with heart disease, the new scanner provides improved resolution of images of the coro... Laboratories, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The scanner will also be used for other important applications, such as identifying narrowed brain arteries that...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...t at a time through a circular opening, while a CT scanner produces 300 images per breast, in a period of just 17 seconds, to build up 3D images. According to the inventors of the new approach, including John Boone of the University of California at Davis ( jmboone@ucdavis.edu ), the technique has the poten...New proton therapy, breast CT clinical trials, radiation-resistant tumors
...t at a time through a circular opening, while a CT scanner produces 300 images per breast, in a period of just 17 seconds, to build up 3D images. According to Boone, the technique has the potential to catch tumors that are the size of a pea, as opposed to the garbanzo-sized tumors that can be caught with st...16-MDCT can efficiently scan ER patients; repositioning patients may improve image quality
...as not necessary," he said. Dr. Gralla noted that scanner performance is already of sufficient quality for emergency use; further advances in emergency CT should focus on the development of positioning equipment to maximize the examination, he said. The study appears in the July 2005 issue of the American J...Combination scanner may increase accuracy in detecting spread, recurrence of head, neck cancer
CHAPEL HILL -- A highly powerful scanner combining two state-of-the-art technologies compu...ves an injection of this agent, and the whole-body scanner detects evidence of cancer that may have been overlooked or difficult to characterize by conventiona...MRI cardiac catheterization poised for success in children with congenital heart disease
...be used in an MRI scanner. Further advancements in scanner design will also enable imaging of even smaller structures, including the tiniest of coronary arteries, Dr. Moore said. "There is a lot we still need to achieve, but clearly MRI cardiac catheterization is going to be quite important," he said....New use of 64-slice CT scan to be studied at HUP to help diagnose coronary artery disease in the ED
...essary testing and hospital stays. The 64-slice CT scanner at HUP is now being used by the emergency departme...ut invasive diagnostic procedures. The 64-slice CT scanner at HUP is the fastest available in the world at this point. HUP is gearing-up for a clinical study t...Rein for pain lays mainly in the brain, Stanford researchers find
...r rtfMRI, scientists placed subjects inside an MRI scanner where they were able to watch their brain activity on a moment-by-moment basis. The subjects were then shown "live" action images of their rostral anterior cingulate cortex, an area of the brain responsible for processing pain. Subjects were given va...New microchip technology for medical imaging biomarkers of disease
...metabolism in a mousewith a specially designed PET scanner for mice produced by Siemens, called amicroPET. The Science paper also illustrated that this technology can alsoproduce the amount of FDG required for human studies. More importantly, thepaper illustrates a new base technology for producing and del...New brain scan technology could save babies' lives
A revolutionary portable brain scanner under development could aid the treatment, and in ...ormation about brain function at the cot side, the scanner avoids the need to move critically ill babies to conventional scanning facilities, which may involve...Researchers develop new method for studying 'mental time travel'
...ton's functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner to capture the participants' brain activity patterns as they studied the images. They then trained a computer program to distinguish between the patterns of brain activity associated with studying faces, locations or objects. The computer program was...Increased role for PET imaging could improve cancer care
...g. UI Hospitals and Clinics is equipped with a PET scanner for both clinical and research purposes, and another devoted purely for research, and a PET-CT scanner, which combines the spatial information obtained in a CT scan with the metabolic information from PET. There also are plans to purchase a second PE......s were scanned using an EEG (electroencephalogram) scanner which looks like a swimming cap covered with elect...t for memory. Without the timeline given by an EEG scanner such an analysis would not be possible. Tests showed that the brain's electrical activity differed a...Classic illusion sheds new light on the neural site of tactile perception
... the enhanced image quality and resolution of this scanner (deriving from the stronger magnetic field plus a specially customized imaging sequence), the authors show that the same brain sector is activated whether the tactile sensation is illusory or real. To identify brain-related activity associated with...