As medical imaging continues to evolve, Health Imaging spoke with enterprise imaging and health informatics expert Paul Chang, MD, professor of radiology and vice chair rad informatics at the University of Chicago Medicine, about what practitioners and healthcare technology leaders should keep in mind regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning in the coming year.  

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. can now boast of having the only clinically-used 7-Tesla MRI scanner in North American, the Post-Bulletin reports.

Neuroscientists have used virtual reality coupled with fMRI to pinpoint where and how memories are recalled, according to a study published in Nature Communications.

Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc., in partnership with Quality Electrodynamics (QED), installed a Vantage GalanTM 3T MR system at the new QED Research Center in Mayfield Village, Ohio. The system, QED’s first research resource, is being utilized to image volunteers in efforts to develop new MR technologies, such as the development and testing of radio frequency coils. The system will also be made available to local university-based researchers and other commercial organizations to test the compatibility and performance of their products in the MR environment.

Myelin, a fatty substance that sheaths nerves, is often damaged or missing in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Physicians have depended on MR to detect demyelination, but the modality is incapable of differentiating between lost or damaged myelin and inflammation.

According to a recent study published in JAMA Neurology, memory decline and the potential to develop Alzheimer's disease may increasingly accelerate with age in certain individuals. 

The United States will—once again—be home to the world’s most powerful x-ray laser, as Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory begins an upgrade.

A group of international researchers has discovered two large proteins in the brain that work together in producing its ‘stop’ and ‘go’ functions, much like a children’s game of “Red Light, Green Light.”