Neuroradiology: Page 193

CT perfusion catches stroke cases that CTA misses
By Charlene Laino
SEATTLE - CT perfusion imaging with a 64-slice scanner is highly useful in evaluating patients with acute stroke, detecting abnormalities in nearly a third of patients in whom no occlusion is identified on conventional CT angiography (CTA), researchers reported at the 2009 American Academy of Neurology meeting.
April 29, 2009
Finger tapping with fMRI reveals autism secrets
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
With the aid of functional MRI (fMRI), researchers are learning new information about the motor skills of children with autism. The study from the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore compared autistic children with their normal peers while performing a simple motor task -- tapping their fingers in sequence.
April 27, 2009
ASL MRI gains edge over PET in brain tumor follow-up
By Wayne Forrest
BOSTON - Researchers have found that FDG-PET and arterial spin labeling (ASL) MR perfusion match the gold standard of pathology or long-term clinical follow-up in differentiating tumor necrosis from recurrence in patients with brain tumors, according to a presentation at this week's American Roentgen Ray Society meeting.
April 27, 2009
MRI analysis predicts brain cancer survival
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor are using a new MRI-based analysis method to predict patient survival as early as one week after brain tumor treatment.
April 21, 2009
Elekta lands Neuromag install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation oncology firm Elekta will install its Neuromag device at the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, NM.
April 16, 2009
IMRIS lands China install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian intraoperative MRI technology developer IMRIS has received an order for its IMRISneuro system from Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, China.
April 15, 2009
MRI shows abnormal brain development from prenatal meth exposure
By Wayne Forrest
With the help of 3-tesla MRI, U.S. researchers have found indications that prenatal methamphetamine exposure accelerates brain development in an abnormal pattern, according to a study published this week in Neurology. The researchers analyzed 29 children who were exposed to meth and 37 unexposed children between the ages of 3 and 4 years.
April 14, 2009
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Study: MRI detects cause of writer's cramp
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A French study has found that abnormalities in the fibers connecting different brain areas may contribute to muscle disorders, such as writer's cramp.
April 12, 2009
CT for brain metastasis unnecessary after PET/CT
By Eric Barnes
A CT scan is often ordered to find brain metastases in lung cancer patients. But if a whole-body PET/CT scan is already available from the original workup, there's no need for a dedicated CT scan, according to researchers from Belgium, who found that the CT portion of the PET/CT scan is enough for the initial diagnosis.
April 1, 2009
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Heart patients getting angio suffer less brain damage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new study to be published in the May/June issue of the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine indicates that patients who suffer cardiac arrests and then receive coronary angiography are twice as likely to survive without significant brain damage compared with patients who don't have the procedure.
March 31, 2009
Bronx Zoo gorilla gets MRI scan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A gorilla at the Bronx Zoo has received an MRI brain scan, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
March 26, 2009
IBA sells Cyclone 30 in Germany
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) sold a new version of its Cyclone 30 cyclotron to the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, a department of the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany.
March 24, 2009
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