Researchers at UC-San Francisco are working on ways to sharply fine-tune MRI for catching and characterizing prostate cancers. The metabolic, diffusion and perfusion-weighted techniques they’re developing with their vendor partner may become applicable for structures well beyond the prostate. 

Facial images extracted from publicly available radiology scans—think of head CT scans stored in open-access medical image repositories for research and education—are fairly easy to match with patients’ photos, raising concerns over privacy.

European researchers have demonstrated a dedicated setup for fast-acquisition, ultrahigh-resolution in vivo MRI of the finger, according to a study posted online in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 

Two scientists used brain-imaging techniques to visualize the brain’s activity and view the reorganization of brain circuits while people start to lose their hearing. This allowed them to predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant amongst people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

The medical imaging software company Novarad, alongside Microsoft, developed a new technology called HoloLens, which creates 3D holograms of MRI scans, CT scans, and x-rays.

University of British Columbia researchers and the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility researchers used high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) and found that teens who are inactive tend to have weaker bones than those who are physically active.

Researchers from Ohio State University used fMRI to show how different parts of the brain represent an objects location in depth compared to its 2D location.

After years of gathering data of his health, a University of California, San Diego technologist provided his surgical team with a 3D model of his abdomen days before going in for colon surgery.