But my hope is that the test will one day also be used to
detect small lesions that today's CT scans can not detect.
Not exact matches
In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and older underwent brain scans to
detect so called silent brain infarcts, or
small lesions in the brain that can cause loss of thinking skills, dementia and stroke.
The researchers induced
small stomach
lesions in anesthetized mice and observed that H. pylori bacteria can rapidly
detect the injury site and navigate toward it.
The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain
lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively
small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.
Taking nutritional supplements containing antioxidants may unintentionally hasten the progression of a
small tumor or premalignant
lesion, neither of which is possible to
detect.
Screening has the possibility to
detect cancer, polyps and
smaller lesions in the colon.
The new Tensor Imaging process will try to
detect these
lesions (associated with DM) when they are
small.
The scan showed an eighteen - centimeter cancerous
lesion, although CT scans and other diagnostic tools can
detect lesions as
small as one centimeter.