While cervical spine injuries (CSI) are uncommon in children, they can be potentially devastating, resulting in quadriplegia—paralysis below the neck affecting both arms and both legs.
MRI scans are commonly used to diagnose a variety of conditions, anything from liver disease to brain tumors. But, as anyone who has been through one knows, patients must remain completely still to avoid blurring the images and requiring a new scan.
If you’re headed for a mammogram, these are some of the key things to know about 3D versus 2D, why 3D mammography is becoming more widely available, and what to ask your provider to make sure your breast cancer screening is as effective as possible.
PET/MRI can improve diagnostic accuracy for prostate cancer patients and help avoid unnecessary biopsies, according to new research published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. By applying the PRIMARY scoring system to PET/MRI results, researchers found that more than 80% of unnecessary biopsies could be avoided at the expense of missing one in eight clinically significant prostate cancer cases.
Locating specific, localized distributions of fat and muscle in body composition is intuitively and imprecisely implied by body shape.
