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Brain Cancer
Research from Aachen University provides new data on brain cancer
May 13th, 2008
According to a study from Aachen, Germany, "The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential of perfusion harmonic imaging (pHI) for assessing microvascular characteristics of brain tumors and to compare this ultrasound technique to perfusion MRI (pMRI). Twenty-five patients with brain tumors underwent transtemporal pHI and fourteen of these patients underwent additional pMRI." "Time-intensity curves of two different regions of interest (ROIs; (1) enhancing tumor; (2) healthy brain) were calculated off-line, and the following parameters were compared between the two ROIs and the two methodologies: time-to-peak intensity (TTP [sec]), the ratios of the peak...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-05-13)
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