Neuroradiology: Page 46

Functional MRI studies scoop top awards at ESMRMB

By Philip Ward

Researchers from the U.K. and France collected prestigious prizes at the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) meeting in Toulouse, France, for their investigations into resting state functional MRI.

October 6, 2013

Jury's still out on clinical impact of resting-state fMRI studies

By Frances Rylands-Monk

For radiologists, performing and evaluating resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) examinations will require education, availability of specific data treatment programs, and a sound understanding of the functioning of the brain in health and disease in order to make a correct decision about the patient's condition.

October 6, 2013

GE highlights DaTScan dementia data

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare is highlighting a trial that evaluated its DaTScan SPECT imaging agent to diagnose patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.

September 26, 2013

MRI and PET of dementia grab attention at WCN in Vienna

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Research on the imaging of beta-amyloid in the brain is among the featured topics at the World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2013, being held this week in Vienna.

September 24, 2013

Study shows slow diagnosis of neurological diseases

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Most patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis are facing delays in diagnosis of more than a year.

September 19, 2013

InSightec launches ExAblate trial

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec has treated the first patient for essential tremor in a phase III clinical trial of its ExAblate Neuro system.

September 9, 2013

Implanted ultrasound device opens up blood-brain barrier

By Tami Freeman, PhD

The blood-brain barrier prevents most drugs from entering the brain and is a major obstacle in the use of chemotherapy to treat brain tumors. Applying focused ultrasound pulses, combined with microbubble-based ultrasound contrast agents, can temporarily open the barrier and enable drug penetration, according to researchers from France.

September 8, 2013

PET predicts cervical spinal cord compression outcome

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

FDG-PET imaging could act as a marker for a potentially reversible phase of degenerative cervical myelopathy, according to research published in the September issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

September 4, 2013

MRI shows migraines may alter brain structure

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MRI scans can show how migraine headaches may have long-lasting effects on brain structure, according to a study published online August 28 in Neurology.

August 28, 2013

U.K.'s NICE updates head injury guideline

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

CT brain scans should be given within one hour for children and adults who have suffered a head injury and also begin to show particular signs that the injury may be serious or potentially life-threatening, according to a proposed new guideline from the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

August 18, 2013

Medtronic ships neurostimulator for use with MRI

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Interventional device developer Medtronic has begun shipments of a neurostimulation implant that can be used in MRI scans of patients who meet certain conditions.

August 13, 2013

Radiologists urged to play more prominent role in dementia

By Philip Ward

Radiologists must contribute more actively to an early diagnosis of cognitive decline that will help with the selection of at-risk patients for clinical trials and improve patient outcomes, top Swiss experts have stressed.

July 30, 2013

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