There is a growing tendency for MR images to be viewed in combination with PET and/or CT in the quest for more accurate — and therefore more useful — diagnoses of complex diseases. While hybrid PET/MR machines have yet to reach the market, a new open-source software application offers radiologists a way to create three-way PET/CT/MR image fusion. Radiologists normally rely on external markers when attempting to match clinical PET and MR images. However, the fuzziness of standard PET scans and the difficulty of coregistering images created by different machines at different times often complicate the process. But Swiss researchers have developed an inexpensive and user-friendly image registration capability based on the free-to-download OsiriX software platform, and they presented their application at the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna.
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There is a growing tendency for MR images to be viewed in combination with PET and/or CT in the quest for more accurate — and therefore more useful — diagnoses of complex diseases. While hybrid PET/MR machines have yet to reach the market, a new open-source software application offers radiologists a way to create three-way PET/CT/MR image fusion. Radiologists normally rely on external markers when attempting to match clinical PET and MR images. However, the fuzziness of standard PET scans and the difficulty of coregistering images created by different machines at different times often complicate the process.

But Swiss researchers have developed an inexpensive and user-friendly image registration capability based on the free-to-download OsiriX software platform, and they presented their application at the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna.

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This What Your Brain Looks Like When You’re Freestyling A recent study conducted by researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) sheds a light on what goes on inside of someone’s brain while partaking in “spontaneous lyrical improvisation.” The scanned image (shown left) compares the results of an A/B test during which subjects were instructed to freestyle (first row) and recite well-rehearsed verses (second row) to an identical 8-bar background track. For the full-length report, read “Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap.”
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This What Your Brain Looks Like When You’re Freestyling

A recent study conducted by researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) sheds a light on what goes on inside of someone’s brain while partaking in “spontaneous lyrical improvisation.” The scanned image (shown left) compares the results of an A/B test during which subjects were instructed to freestyle (first row) and recite well-rehearsed verses (second row) to an identical 8-bar background track. For the full-length report, read “Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap.”

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Unborn twins caught on video MRI for the first time

They might share the same DNA and cramped living space, but as these images reveal, life is anything but identical for unborn twins. This unprecedented glimpse into their inner world is afforded through a recently developed form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is being turned on twins for the first time. (Read more)

Real-time MRI of a human heart

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Moment of birth captured with MRI scanner As if contemplating childbirth wasn’t daunting enough, a woman in Germany has given birth whilst being scanned in an MRI machine. It’s the first time the moment of birth has been captured using MRI. A group at Berlin’s Charité University Hospital delivered the baby while the mother lay in the scanner. The open design allowed medics access to both mother and baby while it recorded the baby’s journey from its mother’s birth canal into the big wide world.  The team developed new fetal monitoring equipment to withstand the strong magnetic field produced by the scanners. They hope the images will shed light on the causes of stalled labour. Five more births have been scheduled for the scanner.
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Moment of birth captured with MRI scanner

As if contemplating childbirth wasn’t daunting enough, a woman in Germany has given birth whilst being scanned in an MRI machine. It’s the first time the moment of birth has been captured using MRI.

A group at Berlin’s Charité University Hospital delivered the baby while the mother lay in the scanner. The open design allowed medics access to both mother and baby while it recorded the baby’s journey from its mother’s birth canal into the big wide world.
 
The team developed new fetal monitoring equipment to withstand the strong magnetic field produced by the scanners. They hope the images will shed light on the causes of stalled labour. Five more births have been scheduled for the scanner.

Source: newscientist.com