Neuroradiology: Page 34

MRI shows Mediterranean diet's effect on brain volume

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MRI scans have shown that older patients who followed a Mediterranean diet had greater brain volume over a three-year period than individuals who did not adhere to the diet as closely, according to a study published online January 4 in Neurology.

January 4, 2017

PET/MRI head scans reveal important incidental findings

By Wayne Forrest

Adding a scan of the entire head to a routine whole-body PET/MRI protocol reveals a significant number of incidental findings in the brain in asymptomatic cancer patients, found a study presented at RSNA 2016.

January 4, 2017

U.K. group performs MRgFUS for essential tremor

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service Trust has performed its first focused ultrasound treatments in the U.K. for essential tremor using the Exablate Neuro system from MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) developer InSightec.

December 11, 2016

Mint Labs partners with Oxford University

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Mint Labs has announced a licensing agreement with Oxford University Innovation, the research commercialization company of the University of Oxford, to incorporate FSL brain mapping software into its pipeline.

November 29, 2016

Going Dutch means far more than tulips, Rembrandt

By Philip Ward

Tulips, Rembrandt, and free cookies feature prominently at the Netherlands Presents booth at McCormick Place in Chicago, but RSNA 2016 delegates found out during a special session why the country's neuroradiologists, including Dr. Meike Vernooij, PhD, are the real stars at the congress.

November 28, 2016

SyntheticMR adds myelin volume feature to SyMRI software

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish medical imaging software developer SyntheticMR has introduced at RSNA 2016 a new feature for its SyMRI postprocessing software that enables automatic quantification of myelin volume in the brain.

November 27, 2016

Switch to macrocyclic GBCAs reduces brain signals

By Wayne Forrest

As more studies weigh the risks and benefits of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs), German researchers have discovered that switching from a linear GBCA to a macrocyclic GBCA reduced the level of residual signal intensity in the brains of patients who underwent multiple enhanced MRI scans with both types of agents.

November 24, 2016

'World's largest imaging study' claims advances

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

UK Biobank, which calls itself the world's largest imaging study with plans to scan more than 100,000 participants, is adding imaging centers and undertaking new projects, according to the group's November 2016 newsletter.

November 15, 2016

Debacles mar big science and fMRI research

By Dr. Peter Rinck, PhD

Functional MRI (fMRI) was one of the most promising research techniques for and be­yond neuroimaging, but have hundreds of millions of euros of research grants been wasted? Dr. Peter Rinck, PhD, investigates in his latest column.

November 15, 2016

Experts: Recognize stroke as a brain disease

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Neurology experts want the World Health Organization to recognize stroke as a brain disease instead of a nervous system one.

October 17, 2016

Don't overlook MRI in fetal brain abnormalities

By Rebekah Moan

Use in utero MRI in conjunction with prenatal ultrasound scans when diagnosing fetal brain abnormalities -- that's the message from U.K. researchers, who found in utero MRI makes a "significant contribution" to the diagnosis by increasing accuracy when compared with ultrasound alone.

October 12, 2016

Imaging solves rare case of cyst caused by tapeworm

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MR spectroscopy can be a useful adjunct for differential diagnosis of intracranial hydatid disease, a rare zoonosis caused by the Ehinococcus tapeworm, according to a case report published online on 12 September in BMJ Case Reports.

September 13, 2016

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