Medical Imaging Gateway

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  • 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.

    Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2013, 15:40
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    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.

    BMC Medicine 2013, 11:122
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    Single-cell live imaging of Notch signaling

    Transgenic mice expressing a nuclear-localized fluorescent protein driven by responsive elements, taken from the CBF1 transcription factor, allow single-cell resolution of the Notch signaling pathway, with greater sensitivity and resolution than previous reporter lines.  

    BMC Developmental Biology 2013, 13:15
  • 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.

    Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound 2013, 1:2
  • 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).

    Breast Cancer Research 2013, 15:R35