Medical Imaging Gateway

CMR 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.

Physiological 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.

Using 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.

NCT 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).

Bladder 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.