Medical Imaging Gateway
Welcome to BioMed Central's Medical Imaging Gateway, highlighting the latest articles we have published in this field as well as news items of interest. Content is continually updated, so please bookmark this page and ensure you check it regularly.
Articles
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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2013, 15:40CMR useful in detecting fetal heart defects
Fetal Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance yielded the same diagnosis as postnatal findings more often that routine obstetric ultrasound, showing promise for CMR as a diagnostic tool for assessment of congenital cardiovascular abnormalities.
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BMC Medicine 2013, 11:122Physiological changes during ultramarathons
Significant changes in total, somatic and visceral volumes assessed by MRI occurred in 22 ultramarathon runners over the course of a 4487 km race, but body and fat volume, together with body mass, were not associated with race performance.
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Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound 2013, 1:2Using microbubbles to improve cancer therapy
Microbubbles have the potential to improve cancer therapy by reducing the amount of time and acoustic power needed to destroy tumors using high intensity focused ultrasound.
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Breast Cancer Research 2013, 15:R35NCT monitoring with microwave imaging
Microwave imaging may provide a low cost alternative to magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography for monitoring patient response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT).
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BMC Medicine 2013, 11:104Bladder cancer imaging
Shaista Hafeez and Robert Huddart discuss recent advances in bladder cancer imaging and review progress in functional imaging techniques which, upon further development and validation, may lead to tumor mapping and personalized patient therapies.
News from around the web
- 23 May 2013
- Noninvasive detection, diagnosis of oral cancer
- 22 May 2013
- CT detects twice as many lung cancers as X-ray
- 22 May 2013
- Addiction as a disorder of decision-making

