Combining structural MRI, diffusion-weighted MRI and multivariate analysis, researchers at Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas have identified seven biomarkers of early brain damage related to cognitive decline in athletes who’ve taken a lot of blows to the head. 

Stanford researchers have developed a PET/MRI system for whole-body staging of solid tumors in young people that uses an iron supplement rather than a gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent and yields accurate results in less than an hour.

Biomedical engineers at Purdue University have developed a tiny “self-learning” device that sits inside MRI scanners, monitoring patients’ biological signals and adding context to their MR images.

Parents have been enjoying printouts of baby’s first picture in the form of fetal ultrasound images for generations. Today’s moms and dads have another option: ultrasound-image statues.

Practicing yoga builds cortical thickness in the prefrontal brain, possibly helping practitioners stay cognitively sharp in their later years.

Researchers have found a link in the brain between giving and contentment, observing an increase in neural activity when participants were deciding to treat someone to something nice and feeling good about it.

Early-stage Parkinson’s disease shows up on MRI in parts of the brain connected to the eyes, which may help clinicians confirm the diagnosis, follow the disease’s progression and monitor the patient’s response to drug treatments, according to a small Italian study published online July 11 in RSNA’s Radiology.

Whole-body diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) very nearly matches conventional imaging when it comes to finding metastases in the liver and bones of cancer patients. That’s the good news for whole-body DWI.