Sentences with phrase «detect white matter»

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Leading the work, Dr Nikos Evangelou, said: «We already knew that large research MRI scanners could detect the proportion of lesions with a vein in the brain's white matter, but these scanners are not clinically available.

Published in the Neurobiology of Aging, the study, which focused on detecting changes in the white matter connections of the brain, offers tantalizing potential for the identification of biomarkers connected to the development of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

DTI uses measurements of water movement in the brain to detect abnormalities, particularly in white matter.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE White - matter hyperintensities (WMHs) detected by magnetic resonance imaging are thought to represent the effects of cerebral small - vessel disease and neurodegenerative changes.

In the first part of our project, we will test the hypothesis that our imaging system, which combines PET and a new form of MRI that I invented called diffusion basis spectrum imaging (DBSI), can reliably detect and measure the severity of white matter damage and inflammation.

Within that enormous sphere, astronomers have detected at least 7.38 Solar - masses of visible matter bound up in 11 luminous stars and one weakly glowing white dwarf.