News tagged with imaging agent
Cancer diagnosis breakthrough
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Taiwan have developed a new imaging contrast agent that will enable cancer patients to undergo CT and MRI scans on the same day, cutting diagnosis time in half.
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Game-changing nanodiamond discovery for MRI
A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and thus vivid image contrast.
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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Multifunctional nanoparticle enables new type of biological imaging
Spotting a single cancerous cell that has broken free from a tumor and is traveling through the bloodstream to colonize a new organ might seem like finding a needle in a haystack. But a new imaging technique ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Nanoparticles Assembled Inside Tumors Trap Drugs and Imaging Agents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtually every study that uses nanoparticles to deliver drugs and imaging agents to tumors starts by loading the clinical payload into the nanoparticle and then injecting the resulting delivery agent into ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 17, 2010 |
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Super-mini vehicles carry therapeutics and imaging agents into body with mega results
Measured in billionths of a meter, self-assembling nano-sized devices designed to carry drugs and imaging agents into the body are revolutionizing medicine by improving drug solubility and bio-distribution, providing a platform ...
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Jun 07, 2011 |
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Image-processing algorithm reduces CT radiation dose by as much as 95 percent
Perfusion CT scanning, an emerging imaging technology, got a bad rap last year when a machine set to incorrect radiation levels overdosed hundreds of people in Los Angeles. In the wake of this incident, researchers at the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Engineers develop more effective MRI contrast agent for cancer detection
Many imaging technologies and their contrast agents — chemicals used during scans to help detect tumors and other problems — involve exposure to radiation or heavy metals, which present potential health risks to ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Sodium MRI gives new insights into detecting osteoarthritis, researchers find
Researchers at New York University have developed an innovative way to look at the development of osteoarthritis in the knee joint—one that relies on the examination of sodium ions in cartilage. Their work, which appears ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 27, 2010 |
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Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Smaller and sharper: Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks (NMOFs) as MRI Contrast Agents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Developing more sensitive methods of biomedical imaging that are effective with minimal amounts of contrast agents is an important challenge in the early and accurate diagnosis of illnesses.
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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Silicon microparticles, gadonanotubes promise big advance for medical imaging
A nest for nanotubes may help magnetic resonance imaging become better than ever at finding evidence of disease.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Overcoming cancer drug resistance with nanoparticles
One of the ways in which cancer cells evade anticancer therapy is by producing a protein that pumps drugs out of the cell before these compounds can exert their cell-killing effects. A research team at Northwestern University ...
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Jan 20, 2012 |
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'Green' nanoparticles, that may enhance medication delivery and improve MRI performance
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have shown a new category of "green" nanoparticles comprised of a non-toxic, protein-based nanotechnology that can non-invasively cross the blood brain barrier and is capable ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 02, 2012 |
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Contrast agent for tumor diagnostics: Phosphorescent metal-organic coordination polymers for optical imaging
(PhysOrg.com) -- X-rays are not the only way: visible and especially infrared light can also be used to image human tissue. The effectiveness of optical imaging processes can be significantly improved with ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 23, 2011 |
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