Sugar can help MRI scanner detect cancer in body
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Sugar can help MRI scanner detect cancer in body

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The researchers found that sensitising an MRI scanner to glucose uptake caused tumours to appear as bright images on MRI scans of mice. London: Researchers have developed a new and cheaper technique to detect cancer which uses sugar to light up tumours in magnetic resonance imaging scans. This can then be detected in tumours using conventional MRI techniques,” lead researcher Simon Walker-Samuel, from the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging said. “The method uses an injection of normal sugar and could offer a cheap, safe alternative to existing methods for detecting tumours, which require the injection of radioactive material,” said Walker-Samuel.

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Scientists Develop MRI Tool That Makes Cancer Cell Detection A Lot Easier

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A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo has developed a new magnetic resonance imaging tool. Compared to standard MRI techniques, synthetic correlated diffusion imaging is better at delineating significant cancerous tissue, making it a potentially powerful tool for doctors and radiologists. Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging and a professor of systems design engineering at …

Sugar can help MRI scanner detect cancer in body
11 years, 8 months ago

Sugar can help MRI scanner detect cancer in body

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The researchers found that sensitising an MRI scanner to glucose uptake caused tumours to appear as bright images on MRI scans of mice. London: Researchers have developed a new and cheaper technique to detect cancer which uses sugar to light up tumours in magnetic resonance imaging scans. This can then be detected in tumours using conventional MRI techniques,” lead researcher …

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