Scanning

Scanning Combo Helps Detect Lung Cancer

Combined use of two diagnostic imaging techniques -- the so-called CT and PET scans -- can reliably detect early lung cancer, claims a new European study.// Italian researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Milan used both CT (or computed tomography) scans and PET (or positron emission tomography) scans in their study of more than 1,000 heavy smokers. Participants had to have s...

Emergence Of New Gene Scanning Technology In Disease Research

In a major breakthrough in the advancement of scientific technology, a new tool// called meltMADGE can scan rare genetic mutation at a fraction of cost. It combines thermal ramp electrophoresis with microplate array diagonal gel electrophoresis. The technology devised by Professor Ian Day from university of Southampton in collaboration with Bristol, University college London, British H...

PET Scanning can help in early detection of Alzheimer’s diseas

Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder with no known cause or cure, first diagnosed in 1901. From, what was known at that time, we have come a long way in understanding the disease process. // The disease is characterized by symptoms of memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, personality changes, disorientation and loss of language skills. Mild cognitive...

Helium And MRI Scanning Clearly Detects Smoker Lungs – Research Find

A new approach of imaging discovered by scientists now detects even small smoking-related lung damages in healthy smokers//. A harmless gas, helium is now used to track deep into the smokers lungs and its movement - researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging),a diagnostic technique creates clear and deep contrast-coloured images of lungs so...

Breakthrough in MRI Scanning in the Near Future

Scientists and clinicians from Aberdeen University are on the brink of another global MRI breakthrough, which could save thousands of lives,// by an early diagnosis of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis and other disorders. A prototype of an MRI scanner has been developed which provides up to 100 different images, compared to one image from current MRI scanners. <br...

'Star Trek'-type Scanning may Help Reveal Genetic Activity of Tumors

Researchers at the Stanford University and California University insist that images from radiology scans, such as the CT scans, may enable doctors to discern most of the genetic activity of a tumor. They say that such an information may lead to diagnosing and treating patients individually, based on the unique characteristics of their disease. "Potentially in the futu...

Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning

Current PET-CT scanners with standard commercial software designed to provide images of the heart are falsely indicating coronary artery disease in as many as 40 percent of patients . Lead author K. Lance Gould, M.D., professor in the Division of Cardiology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, said he discovered the abnormalities upon his initial use of cardiac PET-CT...