Sentences with phrase «carestream molecular imaging»

Xiaoyuan Chen, Ph.D., Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine at NIBIB, and his team attempted to solve this problem by developing a radiotracer that could identify prostate cancer at all stages.

Hans Schmitthenner worked in industrial research for 27 years for AstraZeneca, Kodak, and Carestream Molecular Imaging.

His knowledge of molecular imaging — a new field that he had learned in his corporate experience — proved to be extremely valuable to his new institution.

Professor Hofkens and his team from the Molecular Imaging and Photonics Unit have now found a way to keep the silver clusters apart by inserting them into the porous framework of zeolites.

«Molecular imaging strategy for determining molecular classifications of NSCLC.»

Drs. Baozhong Shen and Xilin Sun are scientists at the Molecular Imaging Research Center (MIRC) of Harbin Medical University.

Starting in 2010, Baraniuk and his colleagues at Georgetown's Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging put Kroot and 30 other sick veterans (plus 20 healthy subjects) through physical and cognitive tests and scanned their brains.

Materials provided by Molecular Imaging Research Center (MIRC) of Harbin Medical University.

This study was performed in the lab of Baozhong Shen, the TOF - PET / CT / MR Center of The Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University and the Molecular Imaging Research Center (MIRC) of Harbin Medical University.

Molecular Imaging Research Center (MIRC) of Harbin Medical University.

FDG - PET, one of the only molecular imaging techniques routinely used in oncology, employs a glucose - like probe, FDG, with a radioactive isotope of fluorine attached as a beacon.

The Systems Biology Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, employs 90 - plus staff scientists working on proteomics, microbial - cell dynamics, cell and molecular imaging and spectroscopy, computational biology, and bioinformatics.

New molecular imaging technologies can make it easier to diagnose, monitor, and treat cancers while potentially saving patients from undergoing therapies that are likely to be ineffective and playing a role in minimizing side effects, according to experts from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

There are four main areas where molecular imaging can have a major impact, according to the study's lead author David A. Mankoff, MD, PhD, the Gerd Muehllehner Professor of Radiology and director of the PET Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

This form of molecular imaging allows the minimally invasive visualization of neuroinflammation.

«And molecular imaging methods face some particularly challenging hurdles such as the need to deliver the short - lived imaging probes to centers performing the imaging.»

A novel molecular imaging technique could be the key to understanding how best to treat these and other devastating diseases, according to a recent study presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

«Major innovation in molecular imaging delivers spatial and spectral info simultaneously: Combines spectroscopy with super-resolution microscopy, enabling new ways to examine cell structures.»

But new molecular imaging, which can be used to complement the biopsy and is noninvasive, can provide added benefit in certain cases, especially when multiple examinations are needed.

«Hybrid scanner combines five molecular imaging technologies.»

Scientists are taking medical imaging research and drug discovery to a new level by developing a molecular imaging system that combines several advanced technologies for all - in - one imaging of both tissue models and live subjects, say presenters at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

«Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of classifying cancerous and normal breast tissues using DESI mass spectrometry imaging,» said Nathalie Agar, PhD, director of the Surgical Molecular Imaging Laboratory, BWH Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, senior study author.

«Combined optical and molecular imaging could guide breast - conserving surgery.»

Ralf Jungmann, Ph.D., an alumnus of Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and currently a Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Germany and Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Peng Yin, Ph.D., have been developing DNA - PAINT, a powerful molecular imaging technology that involves transient DNA - DNA interactions to accurately localize fluorescent dyes with super-resolution.

Another feature of the nanoparticles is that they are fluorescent and thus can be tracked in the body with molecular imaging techniques.

For this clinical pilot study, researchers imaged subjects undergoing routine molecular imaging procedures such as bone scans or imaging of the thyroid, eye or lymphatic system.

For the first time, scientists have used Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging to study brain inflammation following Zika virus infection in mice, according to a study recently published online in the journal Molecular Imaging and Biology.

Bigger isn't always better, especially when it comes to a new and surprisingly portable molecular imaging system that combines optical imaging at the surface level and scintigraphy, which captures the physiological function of what lies beneath, announced developers at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

Understanding Peripartum Depression Through Neuroimaging: a Review of Structural and Functional Connectivity and Molecular Imaging Research.

The study, published online in the Aug. 21, 2015, issue of Nature Communications, was led by Zheng - Rong Lu, Ph.D., CWRU M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of biomedical engineering and an expert in molecular imaging for cancer and other diseases.

Molecular Imaging, University of Cologne, Germany.

«Integrating these molecular imaging tools offers the opportunity to investigate the possible independent and synergistic contribution of these protein pathologies in neurodegeneration in the living brain and, therefore, greatly advance our understanding of the mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease,» said Drzezga.

A relatively new biomarker called prostate - specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is the bullseye for three new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents that bind to the protein in not only prostate cancer, but a range of tumor types, according to research unveiled at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

By comparison, that's about 15 times smaller than a red blood cell, and Zhang said shrinking an infrared light source to such a small scale could open doors to new kinds of chemical sensing and molecular imaging that aren't possible with today's state - of - the - art nanoscale infrared spectroscopy.

Not only does the technology have its roots in the U-M Department of Radiology's Center for Molecular Imaging, it was also tested thoroughly by a separate team of U-M Health System lung - imaging experts.

For several years, the «Molecular Imaging» research group at the FMP led by physicist Leif Schröder has been developing new MRI methods that rely on just such a «flux compensator» and has demonstrated the impressive potential of this method.

Richards - Kortum's work brings together nanotechnology, molecular imaging, and microfabrication to address global health challenges by developing low - cost medical technologies — such as a portable microendoscope to diagnose and treat cervical cancer — for use on the ground in low - resource settings around the world.

This process was made possible by interdisciplinary collaboration between immunologists and molecular imaging specialists.

The test results were presented at the 2016 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting in San Diego on June 13.

«This multi-agent detection capability has the potential to transform molecular imaging, as it provides a critical translational pathway for studies in patients,» said Flask.

Adding this variable angle slant hole collimator to an existing breast molecular imaging system allows the system to get six times better contrast of cancer lesions in the breast, providing the same or better image quality while also potentially reducing the radiation dose to the patient by half.

Paulsen's study investigated whether the addition of molecular imaging (NIRST) at the time of MRI would improve the diagnostic accuracy of breast MRI alone by contributing functional information about regions of suspicion in the breast identified by the MRI and helping to categorize the regions as malignant or benign.

«Although treatable at the early stage, prostate cancer is prone to metastasis,» explain the team of authors, led by Xiaoyuan Chen, senior investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine at the U.S. National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

They found that using the VASH collimator with an existing breast molecular imaging system, they could get six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, which could potentially reduce the radiation dose to the patient by half from the current levels, while maintaining the same or better image quality.

The research, published today in Science, was co-led by Associate Professor Hans Elmlund from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging based at Monash University.

Thus, molecular imaging by means of PSMA - PET / CT also has an important role as a stratification criterion, and the «theranostic» concept [combining diagnostic imaging of a biomarker with precise therapy] may be an additional motivation to establish PSMA - PET / CT as a routinely available imaging modality.»

Jimmy Bell heads the molecular imaging group at Imperial College London, where he pioneered body fat imaging using MRI.

Researchers at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) are presenting a molecular imaging technique that allows oncologists to set patients» radiotherapy doses right at that critical limit of delivering the most powerful kill to neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) while protecting vulnerable vital organs.

«Molecular imaging of neuroendocrine tumors optimizes radiotherapy dose: Study shows the use of PET and SPECT tailors radionuclide treatment for neuroendocrine cancer patients and reduces the risk of toxicity.»

Scientists are taking preemptive action by using already available molecular imaging systems to determine the optimal dose of one such peptide - receptor radionuclide therapy known as yttrium - 90 DOTA0 - Tyr3 - octreotide (Y - 90 DOTATOC).