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Research Updates | Martinos Center
Early-Stage Lung Cancer May Be Detected from a Drop of Blood
The Center’s Leo Cheng and colleagues reported the study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Novel Evaluation of Cerebrovascular Response in Chronic Mild TBI
A new study by the Center’s Phoebe Chan, Kenneth Kwong and colleagues shows that the approach could help improve diagnosis...
MRI and Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Early Signs of Tumor Cell Death after Novel Therapy
The Center’s Or Perlman, Christian Farrar and colleagues reported the findings in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Magnetic Particle Imaging May Allow Intraoperative Breast Tumor Margin Assessment
The Center’s Erica Mason, Larry Wald and colleagues have demonstrated the sensitivity of the technique in simulations of breast-conserving...
Noninvasive Imaging Strategy Detects Dangerous Blood Clots in the Body
The Center’s David Sosnovik and colleagues have developed and tested a targeted contrast agent that can detect blood clots...
Human Whole-Brain Diffusion MRI Dataset Available Online
Reported by Fuyixue Wang and colleagues, it is the first publicly available reference dataset acquired in vivo at submillimeter...
A New Link between Pain Widespreadness and Catastrophizing Thoughts about Pain
Vitaly Napadow, Dan-Mikael Ellingsen and colleagues reported the findings in Pain.
PET/MRI Reproducibly Discriminates between Individuals with and without Chronic Low Back Pain
Angel Torrado-Carvajal and Marco L. Loggia and colleagues have reproduced and expanded on earlier work showing that a thalamic neuroinflammation...
Functional Connectivity on MEG May Be a Biomarker of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Using MEG, the Center’s Fahimeh Mamashli, Tal Kenet and colleagues determined that children with ASD show altered functional...
Movies and Narratives as Naturalistic Stimuli in Neuroimaging
Jyrki Ahveninen and colleagues recently reviewed the use of movies and stories as stimuli during neuroimaging research into memory...
Understanding the Patient-Clinician Relationship with ‘Hyperscanning’ fMRI
Using the novel approach, Vitaly Napadow and his team demonstrated the positive impact of good bedside manner.
PET/MRI Superior to MRI Alone for Staging of Rectal Cancer
Compared with standalone MRI hybrid PET/MRI enabled more accurate evaluation of tumor size N status and external sphincter infiltration...
Solving Technical Problems in Fetal MRI
The Center’s John Kirsch and colleagues review strategies for optimizing image quality and reducing artifacts during fetal...
AMI Amputation Improves Motor Execution, Sensory Perception
The Center’s Shriya Srinivasan, Robert Barry and colleagues describe the findings in Science Translational Medicine.
MRI Findings Support Gradient of Spinal Cord Demyelination in Multiple Sclerosis
Caterina Mainero and colleagues have become the first to identify in vivo a specific spatial pattern of lesion development in the...
Early Details of Brain Damage in COVID-19 Patients
Eva-Maria Ratai and colleagues report finding metabolic disturbances in the brain in one of the first spectroscopic imaging-based...
New Molecular Imaging Tool Detects Pulmonary Fibrosis
Peter Caravan and colleagues use a novel PET probe to find type I collagen and identify disease activity in pulmonary fibrosis.
Advances in MRI Technologies for Chronic Liver Diseases
Iris Y. Zhou, Onofrio A. Catalano and Peter Caravan review a host of functional and molecular MRI techniques.
Smart Chemiluminescence Probe Facilitates Optical Imaging of Amyloid-Beta
Developed by Chongzhao Ran and colleagues, the probe greatly improves the ability to detect amyloid-beta in vitro and in a mouse...