Neuroradiology: Page 144

MRI reveals football's toll on high school athletes

By Eric Barnes

SAN FRANCISCO - Brain changes resulting from traumatic brain injury are measurable on MRI after just one season of high school football, even if the athletes never experienced a concussion, according to a study presented on Tuesday at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons meeting.

April 9, 2014

ClearPoint, Visius used for pediatric laser procedure

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

IMRIS and MRI Interventions announced that a surgical team at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, TX, has used the companies' combined technology to perform the first pediatric laser ablation procedure.

April 2, 2014

PiB-PET shows link between arterial stiffness and beta amyloid

By Wayne Forrest

PET scans with Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) showed a dramatic increase in brain beta-amyloid deposits in older adults with no signs of dementia, and there was also a strong association between arterial stiffness and beta amyloid, according to a study published online March 31 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

March 31, 2014

PET being used to evaluate Menkes therapies

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Japanese researchers are using PET to visualize copper distribution in mice to potentially identify therapies for a genetic disorder known as Menkes disease.

March 25, 2014

FDA OKs Piramal's Neuraceq PET agent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Piramal Imaging has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its Neuraceq PET imaging agent.

March 20, 2014

MRI magnetic fields might treat balance disorders

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Two new studies suggest that magnetic fields from MRI scanners could be used to diagnose, treat, and study inner-ear disorders in the future, replacing more invasive and uncomfortable examinations.

March 18, 2014

Study finds overutilization of imaging for headache in U.S.

By Wayne Forrest

Despite guidelines to control the use of CT and MRI for headaches and migraines, neuroimaging procedures are overused and cost an estimated $3.9 billion between 2007 and 2010, according to a study published online March 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

March 17, 2014

fMRI shows why smokers can't quit

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Functional MRI (fMRI) is shedding light on why so many people are unable to quit smoking, according to a study published online March 12 in JAMA Psychiatry.

March 13, 2014

Florbetapir-PET links beta amyloid to cognitive decline at 3 years

By Wayne Forrest

Individuals who tested positive for beta amyloid on florbetapir-PET brain scans were more likely to decline cognitively over a three-year period than those with a negative scan, in a study published online March 11 in Molecular Psychiatry.

March 11, 2014

Aycan launches new workstation

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiology informatics firm Aycan Medical Systems has launched a new neuro-oncology workstation.

March 11, 2014

Parizel takes ECR delegates on cerebral journey of discovery and hope

By Philip Ward

VIENNA - Emerging functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, and diffusion kurtosis imaging can provide a better understanding of the microstructure and function of the brain, and help to elucidate some of the mechanisms involved in neuroplasticity, explained Dr. Paul Parizel in the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Honorary Lecture at ECR 2014.

March 9, 2014

MRI reveals the human connectome

By Mélisande Rouger

VIENNA - Researchers are now better able to understand how brain neurons connect with one another and how disease affects these connections. Maps of neural connections from MRI are vital to this task. A dedicated New Horizons session covered this fascinating topic on Friday at ECR 2014.

March 7, 2014

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