Better MRI Scans Of Cancers Now Possible

Friday, January 16, 2009 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have developed a substance that enables doctors to get better MRI scans of tumors. The medical profession’s ability to trace and visualize tumors is increasing all the time. Detection and imaging techniques have improved enormously in recent years. One of the techniques that have come on by leaps and bounds is MRI. Patients who are going to have MRI scans are often injected with a ‘contrast agent’, which makes it easier to distinguish tumors from surrounding tissues.

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