New imaging technique can detect neurological disorders such as disease
With PET scan of the brain, the qualityimages often become worse due to patient movement during scanning. In this study, researchers used super-resolution to reduce the effects of patient head movements to improve scan quality.
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The experiments were carried out on a PET scanner incombined with an external motion tracker that continuously measures head movement with extremely high accuracy. After combining the data from the imaging devices, the researchers obtained images with noticeably higher resolution than conventional scans.
Although this scanning method has been tested so faronly in preclinical studies, scientists are now working to extend it to patients. “Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the presence of tangles of tau protein. These glomeruli begin to accumulate in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease - sometimes decades before symptoms appear - in very small areas of the brain. The better we can image these small structures in the brain, the sooner we can diagnose and possibly treat Alzheimer's, ”the researchers noted.
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