The spinal cord engages in its own learning of motor tasks independent of the brain, according to an imaging study published June 30th in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology. The results of the study — conducted by Shahabeddin Vahdat, Ph.D., Ovidiu Lungu, and principal investigator Julien Doyon, Ph.D., of the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada — may offer new opportunities for rehabilitation after spinal cord injury.

Mevion Medical Systems announced delivery of the superconducting synchrocyclotron accelerator for its Mevion S250 proton therapy system for installation at University Hospitals (UH) Seidman Cancer Center and UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland.

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MRI Interventions Inc. announced that the neurological surgical team at University of Kansas Medical Center performed the first stereotactic laser ablation of the hippocampus (SLAH) procedure in their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite, utilizing the ClearPoint Neuro Navigation System.

When it comes to breast cancer screening, the fibroglandular density of your breasts affects how well a mammogram can detect cancerous tissues. That’s why Pennsylvania and 20 other states have adopted laws requiring radiologists to include information about breast density in every woman’s mammogram report, according to Susann Schetter, DO, co-medical director of Penn State Hershey Breast Center. Schetter’s comments were published in a recent edition of The Medical Minute, a weekly health news feature produced by Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Significant strides have been made in improving the survival of adult patients with low-grade gliomas, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The scientists used clinical data collected over the past decade through a U.S. cancer registry for their research on the slow-growing yet deadly form of primary brain cancer. The findings are published July 1 by Neuro-Oncology: Clinical Practice.

The continuing exploration of the benefits of proton therapy is inspiring a growing and massive construction of new proton centers across Europe. Proton Therapy Center (PTC) in Prague has been treating patients from 25 countries for more than two years, and many other facilities are profiting from Prague’s experience.

Carestream showcased the Carestream Vue PACS (picture archiving and communication system) workstation with streamlined reading, processing and reporting of imaging studies at the “Workstation Face-Off,” part of the annual International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT. The event, held recently in San Francisco, was hosted by the International Society of Computed Tomography (ISCT).

radiation exposure, CT, X-ray, cancer, James Welsh, Jeffry Siegel, Loyola

In recent years, there has been widespread media coverage of studies purporting to show that radiation from X-rays, computed tomography (CT) scans and other medical imaging causes cancer. But such studies have serious flaws, including their reliance on an unproven statistical model, according to a recent article in the journal Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment. Corresponding author is Loyola University Medical Center radiation oncologist James Welsh, M.D., MS.

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