Image: Neuroblastoma of the adrenal gland. Credit: Ed Uthman. CC BY-NC 2.0 A type of smart MRI scan used in people with heart disease could help assess whether children’s cancers are especially ...

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In the past, such symptoms might mean a treadmill stress test or a cardiac catheterization to diagnose the problem. That's changing with the advent of new imaging technology: CT scans, MRI ...

A new technology that allows doctors to quantify blood flow in the heart can improve their ability to diagnose potentially ...

Other recent research from the teams at UEA, Leeds and Sheffield has refined the method of using heart MRI scans for female patients, particularly for those with early or borderline heart disease ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard for soft tissue ... and computed tomography for diagnosing problems of the heart and blood vessels; in addition, the contrast material used ...

according to cardiac imaging experts. They claim thousands of Scottish patients with chest pains are missing out on potentially life-saving scans. Their research estimates that just 27% of people ...

The difference with the Oxford researchers' approach is that they used MRI scans to look at detailed images of the structure of the heart muscle to check for "muscle fibre disarray". This suggests ...

Offering people suspected of having a certain type of heart attack MRI scans could help thousands of patients avoid an invasive procedure, a study has claimed. University of Oxford researchers ...