Medical Imaging News

April 5, 2025

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Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound

Apr. 3, 2025 — While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ultrasound to reveal capillaries and cells across ...

PET Imaging Confirms Direct Involvement of Dopamine in Cognitive Flexibility

Mar. 28, 2025 — Scientists have confirmed a neurobiochemical link between dopamine and cognitive flexibility. PET imaging shows that the brain increases dopamine production when completing cognitively demanding ...

Terahertz Imaging: Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Cochlear Visualization

Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a groundbreaking use of terahertz (THz) imaging to visualize cochlear structures in mice, offering non-invasive, high-resolution diagnostics. By creating 3D reconstructions, this technology opens new possibilities for ...

Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies

Mar. 26, 2025 — A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body, that could revolutionize early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers. The team say this is the first time it has been possible to generate high-resolution ...

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AI Technology Improves Parkinson's Diagnoses

Mar. 19, 2025 — AI-driven software is 96% accurate at diagnosing ...

Quantum-Inspired Cameras Capture the Start of Life

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have performed the first imaging of embryos using cameras designed for quantum measurements. The academics investigated how to best use ultrasensitive camera technology, including the ...

Lighting the Way: How Activated Gold Reveals Drug Movement in the Body

Mar. 12, 2025 — Tracking targeted drug delivery is often a challenge due to limitations in the current imaging techniques. A recent study reports a breakthrough imaging technique that allows direct and highly ...

Repurposed ALS Drug Becomes Imaging Probe to Help Diagnose Neurodegeneration

Mar. 5, 2025 — Scientists used positron emission tomography (PET) with edaravone, a drug used to treat ALS, to detect oxidative stress, which leads to brain damage, ...

Breakthrough Tool to Enhance Precision in Cold-Temperature Cancer Surgery

Mar. 3, 2025 — Researchers have developed an innovative tool that enhances surgeons' ability to detect and remove cancer cells during cryosurgery, a procedure that uses extreme cold to destroy tumors. This ...

Researchers Identify Potential Link Between Retinal Changes, Alzheimer's Disease

Feb. 26, 2025 — A team of scientists has identified that an eye condition affecting the retina, the light-sensing tissue in the back of the eye, may serve as an ...

Researchers Paving the Way for New Era in Medical Imaging

Feb. 25, 2025 — Technology could lead to faster, more precise and more cost-effective alternatives to traditional diagnostic ...

A Versatile AI System for Analyzing Series of Medical Images

Feb. 27, 2025 — A new AI-based system for analyzing images taken over time can accurately detect changes and predict outcomes, according to a new study. The system's sensitivity and flexibility could make it useful ...

Telemedicine May Help Reduce Use of Unnecessary Health Tests

Feb. 24, 2025 — A research team has found that telemedicine may help to reduce the use of low-value ...

Deep Learning to Increase Accessibility, Ease of Heart Imaging

Feb. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed a method that leverages artificial intelligence to ensure accurate heart scans without added radiation or ...

Real Time Monitoring of Stroke Using Light and Sound

Mar. 5, 2025 — Researchers have successfully observed early vascular changes in stroke using an innovative photoacoustic ...

Pushing the Limits of 'Custom-Made' Microscopy

Feb. 20, 2025 — Scientists developed a new microscope based on Brillouin scattering -- a phenomenon where light interacts with naturally occurring thermal vibrations within materials, from which their mechanical ...

Reasons for Misdiagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia

Feb. 10, 2025 — Researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to ...

Clot-Busting Meds May Be Effective Up to 24 Hours After Initial Stroke Symptoms

Feb. 7, 2025 — In a randomized clinical trial, giving the clot-busting medication alteplase up to 24 hours after stroke symptoms first appeared increased the odds of better recovery by 50% compared to those who ...

New Computational Method Reveals Congestive Heart Failure

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of physicists has developed a groundbreaking method for detecting congestive heart failure with greater ease and precision than previously thought possible. This multidisciplinary study, ...

All in the Eyes: High Resolution Retinal Maps Aid Disease Diagnoses

Feb. 4, 2025 — Researchers have conducted one of the largest eye studies in the world to reveal new insights into retinal thickness, highlighting its potential in the early detection of diseases like type 2 ...

Artificial Intelligence Improves Personalized Cancer Treatment

Jan. 30, 2025 — Personalized medicine aims to tailor treatments to individual patients. Until now, this has been done using a small number of parameters to predict the course of a disease. However, these few ...

AI Boosts Efficacy of Cancer Treatment, but Doctors Remain Key

Jan. 30, 2025 — A new study shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can help doctors make better decisions when treating cancer. However, it also highlights challenges in how doctors and AI work together. The study ...

Diagnostic Stewardship Optimizes Detection of Appendicitis

Jan. 29, 2025 — Although the delayed diagnosis of appendicitis is dangerous, over-testing can also be ...

Routine Brain MRI Screening in Asymptomatic Late Stage Breast Cancer Patients

Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study shows that asymptomatic brain metastasis is more common in stage 4 breast cancer patients than previously believed. The study suggests that doctors may need to rethink current screening ...

Largest Study Ever Done on Cannabis and Brain Function Finds Impact on Working Memory

Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain function during cognitive tasks. The study, the largest of its kind ever to be completed, examined the effects of ...

Novel PET Approach Identifies Early Signs of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Jan. 22, 2025 — A new molecular imaging technique -- 18F-FAPI PET -- can detect the first signs of tissue remodeling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), providing physicians with an early marker ...

Bioluminescent Cell Imaging Gets a Glow-Up

Jan. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to expand the palette of bioluminescent protein colors for cell labeling. By creating 20 distinct colors, they have enabled the simultaneous ...

PET Probe Images Inflammation With High Sensitivity and Selectivity

Jan. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a breakthrough method to detect inflammation in the body using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. This innovative probe targets CD45, a marker abundantly expressed ...

Ultrasound-Directed Microbubbles Could Boost Immune Response Against Tumors

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have designed process that uses ultrasound to modify the behavior of cancer-fighting T cells by increasing their cell permeability. They targeted freshly isolated human immune cells with ...

MRI Scanning and Biopsy Could Reduce Delays in the Correct Treatment for Bladder Cancer by More Than Six Weeks

Jan. 15, 2025 — Patients with a common aggressive type of bladder cancer could get correct treatment significantly quicker as new research suggests that initial MRI imaging and biopsy could be used to reduce the ...

AI Innovation Unlocks Non-Surgical Way to Detect Brain Cancer Spread

Jan. 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to detect the spread of metastatic brain cancer using MRI scans, offering insights into patients' cancer without aggressive ...

Uncurling a Single DNA Molecule and Gluing It Down Helps Sharpen Images

Jan. 14, 2025 — Using advanced imaging techniques and precise microfluidics control to stretch out curly DNA into a straight line, new research demonstrates techniques for stretching and immobilizing DNA with ...

Advanced Imaging Uncovers Hidden Metastases in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Cases

Jan. 3, 2025 — A new study has found that many cases of high-risk nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer may be more advanced than previously ...

Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms Improve Medical Image Analysis

Jan. 2, 2025 — Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the analysis of medical image data. For example, algorithms based on deep learning can determine the location and size of tumors. This is the ...