Measuring brain atrophy in patients with mild cognitive impairment
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 12:56
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a fully automated procedure called Volumetric MRI -- which measures the "memory centers" of the brain and compares them to expected size -- is effective in predicting the progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease.
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