Medical applications of synchrotron radiation

P Suortti, W Thomlinson - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
The medical imaging and therapeutic technologies that are based on the use of radiation
are reviewed briefly, with special emphasis on the recent developments of synchrotron …

Advances in biological structure, function, and physiology using synchrotron X-ray imaging

MW Westneat, JJ Socha, WK Lee - Annu. Rev. Physiol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Studies of the physiology and biomechanics of small (∼ 1 cm) organisms are often limited
by the inability to see inside the animal during a behavior or process of interest and by a lack …

Mouse models to study the effect of cardiovascular risk factors on brain structure and cognition

DI Bink, K Ritz, E Aronica… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent clinical data indicates that hemodynamic changes caused by cardiovascular
diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart failure, and hypertension affect cognition. Yet, the …

Prolonged survival of Fischer rats bearing F98 glioma after iodine-enhanced synchrotron stereotactic radiotherapy

JF Adam, A Joubert, MC Biston, AM Charvet… - International Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
Purpose: Heavy-atom-enhanced synchrotron stereotactic radiotherapy (SSR) is a treatment
that involves selective accumulation of high-Z elements in tumors followed by stereotactic …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of brain fluid volumes and pressures: basic principles, intracranial hypertension, ventriculomegaly and hydrocephalus

SB Hladky, MA Barrand - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2024 - Springer
The principles of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production, circulation and outflow and regulation
of fluid volumes and pressures in the normal brain are summarised. Abnormalities in these …

Synchrotron radiation therapy of malignant brain glioma loaded with an iodinated contrast agent: first trial on rats bearing F98 gliomas

JF Adam, H Elleaume, A Joubert, MC Biston… - International Journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Enhancement of the radiation dose delivered to a brain tumor can be achieved
by infusing an iodinated contrast agent to the patient and irradiating with kilovoltage X-rays …

In vivo and in vitro Validation of Reference Tissue Models for the mGluR5 Ligand [11C]ABP688

D Elmenhorst, L Minuzzi, A Aliaga… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The primary objective of this study was to verify the suitability of reference tissue-based
quantification methods of the metabotropic glutamate receptor type 5 (mGluR5) with [11C] …

Substitution of 11C-methionine PET by perfusion MRI during the follow-up of treated high-grade gliomas: preliminary results in clinical practice

V Dandois, D Rommel, L Renard, J Jamart… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Our aim was to compare perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and
positron emission tomography (PET) using carbon-11 labelled methionine (MET) in gliomas …

Magnetization transfer induced biexponential longitudinal relaxation

AM Prantner, GL Bretthorst, JJ Neil… - Magnetic resonance …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Longitudinal relaxation of brain water 1H magnetization in mammalian brain in vivo is
typically analyzed on a per‐voxel basis using a monoexponential model, thereby assigning …

Quantitative vascular neuroimaging of the rat brain using superparamagnetic nanoparticles: New insights on vascular organization and brain function

CA Gharagouzloo, L Timms, J Qiao, Z Fang, J Nneji… - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
A method called Quantitative Ultra-Short Time-to-Echo Contrast Enhanced (QUTE-CE)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) which utilizes superparamagnetic iron oxide …