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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BMC Anesthesiology 2013, 13:18Ultrasound gels present low neurotoxicity risk
Experiments in an animal system indicate that there is low risk for neurotoxicity associated with the use of ultrasound gels containing propylene glycol and glycerol, despite the fact that these compounds are neurotoxic in high concentrations.
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Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 2013, 5:36Amyloid imaging in clinical trials
Ossenkoppele and colleagues comment on the possibilities of amyloid imaging in clinical trials with disease-modifying agents, methodological considerations for reliable longitudinal amyloid imaging and alternative quantitative approaches.
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BMC Nephrology 2013, 14:170Diagnosing LVH in Children with ESRD
Changes in diastolic wall thickness of less than 1.6 mm or left ventricle mass index of less than 17.7 g/m2 cannot be distinguished from measurement error when monitoring the appearance of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) by echocardiography in children with ESRD.
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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2013, 13:202Curcumin for depression
The administration of curcumin to rats after exposure to chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) stimuli reverses abnormalities in behavior and cerebral glucose metabolism associated with depression and anxiety.
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BMC Medical Imaging 2013, 13:24Optimizing left ventricle segmentation in MRI
A conditional random features approach for automatic segmentation of left ventricles integrates shape and motion features to enhance calculations of function and mass which, due to papillary muscles, are often obscured in threshold-based segmentation.
News from around the web
- 27 September 2013
- New paradigm for nanoscale resolution MRI experimentally achieved
- 27 September 2013
- New breast cancer imaging technique could cut down on false positives
- 27 September 2013
- Hospital-grade lightweight blood flow imager on the cheap

