New imaging technique evaluates nerve damage

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

A new imaging technique could help doctors and researchers more accurately assess the extent of nerve damage and healing in a live patient. Researchers aimed lasers at rats' damaged sciatic nerves to create images of the individual neurons' insulating sheath called myelin.

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