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But the key to containing colon cancer in people like Snow is the ability to detect recurrent tumors. Current imaging tests including MRI and PET scans may not pick up the small micrometastases that seed repeat growths; PET scans rely on the tumor's voracious appetite for glucose for energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Controlling Colon Cancer | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

Although the results are undeniable, it's still unclear what's going on in the patients' brains. The researchers will start to explore this question next summer by taking pictures of the brain before and after surgery using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanners. Since the brain devotes roughly 35...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Blindness is Epidemic | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

Imaging studies like this one, says Freedman, are constantly providing important information about how we process our environment and make decisions, and could become essential tools in shaping the products we see and buy in the future. If this year 's Super Bowl ads are any indication, however, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Scans: How Super Bowl Ads Fumbled | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

If I want to buy a stock or mutual fund, I can call up my old friend the ob-gyn. I know three anesthesiologists who became financial analysts with investment firms. Two radiologists run imaging businesses, and a good orthopedist friend dropped out to put up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors Without Dollars | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

With the help and encouragement of the Dalai Lama, Davidson recruited Buddhist monks to go to Madison and meditate inside his functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tube while he measured their brain activity during various mental states. For comparison, he used undergraduates who had had no experience with meditation but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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