Johns Hopkins building image library for pediatric brain disease

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore are collecting images of children’s brains in order to build an imaging databank that can be searched by doctors around the world to help diagnose and treat neurological disorders.

For more on the project from The Baltimore Sun, follow the link below:

Image databank could help diagnose children's brain diseases

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