JUNE 11, 2024 by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Top row: CT- and LSO-TX-based attenuation maps with their respective percentage relative change (%RC) map. Bottom row: PET images reconstructed using CT- and LSO-TX-based attenuation maps with their respective %RC map. Credit: Image created by H Sari et al., Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland...
Tag: <span>Imaging</span>
BIOMEDICALNEWS”Snake-like” Probe Images Arteries from Within The new fiber-optic probe could transform aneurysm and brain clot treatments
ELIE DOLGIN Clinicians at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto used the new imaging probe to evaluate narrowed brain arteries in a patient with atherosclerosis. ST. MICHAEL’S FOUNDATION Neurosurgeon Vitor Mendes Pereira has grown accustomed to treating brain aneurysms with only blurry images for guidance. OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FIBER OPTICS BRAIN IMAGING Equipped with a rough...
Researchers develop method to monitor patients with spinal muscular atrophy using sound waves
MAY 15, 2024 by Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nurnberg Credit: Med (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.02.010Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a terrible disease in which a genetic mutation causes certain nerves responsible for sending signals to muscles to degenerate. This leads to muscles wasting away, and many patients have died a painful death due to this rare condition. Genetic...
Imaging with radio-labeled tracer correlates with identification of early-stage endometriosis by laparoscopic surgery
by University of Oxford Credit: Sora Shimazaki from PexelsResearch presented at The Society for Reproductive Investigation Meeting summarized preliminary findings from patients with known or suspected endometriosis who were imaged with a SPECT-CT camera and subsequently underwent planned laparoscopic surgery, a key-hole surgical procedure to establish the presence, absence and location of endometriotic lesions. The...
Researchers develop an ultrasensitive broadband transparent ultrasound transducer
by Pohang University of Science and Technology Ultrasound-photoacoustic dual modal imaging of TUT and mouse abdomen. Credit: POSTECHThe ‘ultrasound-photoacoustic dual-modal imaging system’ combines molecular imaging contrast with ultrasound imaging, and it can visualize molecular and structural information inside the body in real time without any ionizing radiation. This advantage gives it the potential to enhance...
Ultrafast ultrasound: First successful contrast agent-free imaging of complex structure of kidneys
by Pohang University of Science and Technology Vascular changes in acute and diabetic renal failure. Credit: POSTECHA research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has investigated kidney diseases using ultrafast ultrasound that captures 1,000 images in just one second. The research team has achieved imaging of the three-dimensional microvasculature of the kidneys using...
Lighting the way to selective membrane imaging
KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY IMAGE: WATER-SOLUBLE TETRAPHENYLETHENE (TPE) DERIVATIVES BEARING ANIONIC GROUPS EXHIBIT AGGREGATION-INDUCED EMISSION (AIE) BEHAVIOR SPECIFICALLY AT LIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACES. INTERFACIAL AIE PROCESS RESPONDS REVERSIBLY TO THE EXTERNALLY APPLIED POTENTIAL AT A BIOMEMBRANE-MIMETIC INTERFACE. Kanazawa, Japan – Researchers at Kanazawa University monitored the emission of blue-green light from water-soluble tetraphenylethene molecules adsorbed at a phospholipid-adsorbed liquid-liquid interface made...
Imaging agent developed at Washington University spotlights inflammation
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Many of the most common diseases — cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and lung disease, and even COVID-19 — have been linked to chronic or excessive inflammation. Blood tests can indicate that some part of a person’s body is inflamed, but doctors don’t have a good way to zero in on the...
Brain imaging expertise supports new discoveries on decision-making process
by Toby Leigh, University of Plymouth Research carried out by a University academic has shed new light on the fundamentals of how, and why, we make the decisions we do. In two separate studies, UKRI Future Leader Fellow and Lecturer in Psychology, Dr. Elsa Fouragnan has used her expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...
Study finds evidence for existence of elusive ‘metabolon’
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For more than 40 years, scientists have hypothesized the existence of enzyme clusters, or “metabolons,” in facilitating various processes within cells. Using a novel imaging technology combined with mass spectrometry, researchers at Penn State, for the first time, have directly observed functional metabolons involved in generating purines, the most abundant cellular...
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