1. FiatLux Imaging Appoints New CEO
(Company News/FiatLux)

FiatLux Imaging announced that medical industry veteran Max Lyon has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). FiatLux Imaging , a company dedicated to providing a comprehensive internet-based ...

2. Alzheimer's Early Detection With PET Scan
(Communities/PET)

Westside Medical Associates of Los Angeles and Westside Medical Imaging (WMI) of Beverly Hills announce the benefit of early positron emission tomography ( PET ) scanning to identify Alzheimer's in its ...

3. MRIs Pose Risk for Patients with Pacemakers
(Communities/MRI)

MRIs pose risk for patients with pacemakers, other implanted devices: Advocates hope to raise awareness of effects of MRIs on metal implants. Cristina McShane is 25 and an exceptionally fit long-distance ...

4. New PET Radiotracers Detects Alzheimer's Disease
(Communities/PET)

New neuroimaging techniques PET (positron emission tomography) radiotracers for the early detection of Alzheimer's Disease. Investigators from the International Center for Biomedicine and the University ...

5. DTI-MRI Detects Early of Alzheimer's Disease
(Communities/MRI)

The Study says new brain scan (DTI-MRI) better detects earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease in healthy people. The new brain scan, called diffusion tenson imaging (DTI), appears to be better at detecting ...

6. Phase III Trial with Florbetaben PET Tracer
(Company News/Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals)

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase III Trial with Florbetaben PET Tracer for Imaging of Cerebral beta-Amyloid Plaques, a Pathological Hallmark of Alzheimer's Disease at RSNA 2009. At the ...

7. Disclosing Mysteries of the Brain with PET
(Communities/PET)

Researchers were to able to identify neuroinflammation, which is marked by activated microglia cells in patients with schizophrenia and in animal models with migraines by using PET. Inflammatory response ...

8. Siemens Submits Exploratory Investigational New Drug Application to FDA for New Imaging Agent
(Company News/Siemens Healthcare)

Siemens Healthcare has filed an exploratory Investigational New Drug (eIND) application with the FDA for a for a new imaging agent Siemens Healthcare has filed an exploratory Investigational New ...

9. Alzheimer's Gene Changes Brain Early, Study Finds
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

A gene known to raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease may alter brain activity throughout life, British researchers said on Monday. They found that young adults with the so-called APOE4 gene type had ...

10. Young Adults at Future Risk of Alzheimer's have Different Brain Activity
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

Young adults with a genetic variant that raises their risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease show changes in their brain activity decades before any symptoms might arise, the new brain imaging study reveals ...

11. Brain Images Reveal the Secret to Higher IQ
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

New research suggests that the layer of insulation coating neural wiring in the brain plays a critical role in determining intelligence. In addition, the quality of this insulation appears to be ...

12. Study Gives More Proof that Intelligence is Largely Inherited
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain's axons, or wiring that sends ...

13. Advanced Medical Research May Lead to Breakthroughs in the Management of Alzheimer's
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

Technology may someday be able to illuminate the plaque in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease and determine the impact of a drug to arrest the disease. Alzheimer's, a progressive and eventually ...

14. Brain damage found in cognitively normal people with Alzheimer's marker
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a potential indicator of Alzheimer's disease to brain damage in humans Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...

15. SNM Heads to Toronto for 56th Annual Meeting
(Organizations/SNM)

Canadian Prime Minister and City of Toronto Welcome SNM to Canada for the Society's 56th Annual Meeting, June 13–17 SNM received a warm greeting as it prepares to head north to Canada for its 56th Annual ...

16. Robarts Research Institute Installs MRI console from Varian, Inc.
(Company News/Varian Medical Systems, Inc.)

Varian, Inc. announced today the Robarts Research Institute has installed a Varian 7T magnet and MRI console as part of its Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping. This imaging centre also ...

17. UC Davis Researchers to Map Brain Patterns of Alzheimer's Disease
(Communities/MRI)

— Researchers at UC Davis have launched an innovative study to determine whether closer examination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can detect the onset of Alzheimer's disease even before patients ...

18. Voxel-Based Morphometry Study Shows Grey Matter Loss Related to Hypertension
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2008)

Hypertension in cognitively normal older adults is correlated with grey matter atrophy in the same brain areas targeted by Alzheimer's disease, according to study data presented on Tuesday at the 2008 ...

19. High-tech diagnosis yields vital clues into mental illness
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

Is there a definitive test for mental illness? Not yet, but using advanced neuropsychiatric diagnostic tools including MRI and PET, mental health professionals are pinpointing the causes of behavioral ...

20. New imaging approach promises insights into multiple sclerosis
(Imported/Imported)

Researchers have developed a way to use three types of microscopic imaging techniques simultaneously to analyze living tissue and learn more about the molecular mechanisms of multiple sclerosis, which ...