A novel PET imaging method, using the radiotracer 11C-MC1, successfully quantifies COX-2 enzyme levels in the human brain. This technique opens the door for earlier detection, monitoring of disease ...

Listening to the tunes we like most affects the function of the brain’s opioid system. The post Listening to good music ...

A new imaging study by the Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the ...

Ph.D. candidate Jesper Pilmeyer examined patients' brains using MRI technology. The patterns he discovered in the brain scans can help make a more accurate diagnosis and predict how the illness ...

Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed a cyst in his kidney ... investigate health issues like cancer and most brain abnormalities, she says. An advantage of ...

He says the experience was much more pleasant than MRI scans, which are “ridiculously noisy and go on forever”. The latest scan gave him a brain age of 23 — around three years older than his ...

Instead of traditional scans, like CTs or MRIs of a specific part of the body, full-body MRI scans require just ... health issues like cancer and most brain abnormalities, she says.