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Data from Children's Hospital provide new insights into life sciences in children
Published in Hematology Week, December 29th, 2008
Research findings, 'Whole-body MRI in children: current status and future applications,' are discussed in a new report. "Whole-body MRI (WBMRI) is a novel technique that makes imaging of the whole patient in a manner similar to scintigraphy or positron emission tomography (PET) possible. Unlike the latter two methods, it is without exposure to radiation and thus gaining increasing importance and application in pediatrics," researchers in the United States report.
"With the introduction of a moving tabletop, sequential movement of the patient through the magnet has become possible with automatic direct realignment of the images after acquisition. The common scan plane is...
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