PET Scans Used For Better Understanding Of Alzheimer's Disease

Researchers from The Karolinska Institute, Sweden, revealed in the medical journal Brain that it was found, for the first time, through an Alzheimer's disease  patient who was detected to have amyloids while conducting PET scans on his brain regularly as his disease progressed, and then his brain was analyzed after he died. The researchers said that the study gave important data on the pathological course of Alzheimer's disease. 
Alzheimer's disease, which also known as SDAT (Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type), is a serious neurologic brain disease that results in irreversible loss of neurons and intellectual abilities such as reasoning and memory. Brain cells die due to the developed plaques in the structure of the brain during the course of the disease. "The method of forming the plaques in the brain and whether they are the main reason of Alzheimer's are still unknown" the authors explained.

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Advanced Radiology Presents A New Open 1.2T MRI

Recently, Advanced Radiology, the largest medical imaging provider in the state of Maryland, has presented Baltimore area's first 1.2 Tesla High Field Open MRI, thanks to the new system, patients and physicians will not have to sacrifice image quality when using an Open MRI. Patients who cannot be subjected to MRI in a traditional closed-bore unit as a result of claustrophobia or height/weight limitations, can now use the new high-strength, boreless magnet as it is considered a major improvement for those patients.
While having an acceptable picture quality in comparison with 1.5 Tesla MRIs, Claustrophobic patients can avoid receiving sedatives or anesthesia. Advanced Radiology's new magnet has created more comfortable and convenient experience for patients, while offering highly precise images that can help in detecting orthopedic, body and other disorders in an accurate way.
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SPECT-CT Can Reduce Lymphedema In Breast Cancer Patients.

According to the radiation oncologists at Mayo Clinic, they were capable of decreasing the number of lymph nodes critical for removing fluid from the arm that subjected to damaging radiation doses by 55% with the utilization of a specialized scan.


The researchers reported that integrating single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with the computerized tomography (CT) scans used for breast cancer radiotherapy planning may provide patients substantial protection against lymphedema, chronic swelling of tissue and an incurable that results from damage to lymph nodes sustained during breast cancer radiation.

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