New imaging technique captures brain activity in patients with chronic low back pain

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

Research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) uses a new imaging technique, arterial spin labeling, to show the areas of the brain that are activated when patients with low back pain have a worsening of their usual, chronic pain. This research is published in the August issue of the journal Anesthesiology.

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