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The Making of a Shared Benchtop Coil Interface for MRI Research

RF coil engineers at NYU Langone Health needed an interface compatible with a new industry standard, so they built one. Now NYU Langone is shipping the devices to other advanced MRI labs.

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Novel Imaging Meets Genomics to Answer Key Question about Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis: Who Will Have It?

PTOA is affecting more people earlier but medicine cannot predict who. The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases is funding NYU Grossman School of Medicine to create an advance warning.

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Seven Imaging Pieces: In Search of a New MRI Marker of Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis

A team of scientists is using a battery of imaging methods to visualize cells, tissues, and joints in a quest for early noninvasive imaging biomarkers of PTOA.

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Optical Metasurfaces Are Becoming More Precise, More Flexible

Wafer-like materials studded with nanofabricated protrusions enable researchers to direct light and contemplate new optical devices.

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Diffusion MRI Study of Concussion Distinguished by AJNR

A multicompartment diffusion MRI analysis of football athletes adds to the body of evidence linking concussion and repeated head impacts to changes in the corpus callosum.

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Can Sodium MRI Tell Which Breast Cancer Patients Need an Alternative to Chemo?

Recent research shows that sodium MRI can predict cancer response to chemotherapy. The National Cancer Institute is funding NYU Grossman School of Medicine to develop and validate the method.

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How a Small Pilot Tone Is Taking On One of MRI’s Big Challenges

Imaging scientists around the world are looking into this simple transmitter to deal with breathing motion in MRI scans. NYU Langone offers resources to kickstart their research.

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Who Better Detects Breast Cancer on Ultrasound Exams: AI or Radiologists? Both.

A combination of radiologists and AI reduced overdiagnosis and more accurately identified breast cancer in ultrasound exams.

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A New Way to Image Myelin

Scientists combine particle physics and neuroscience to visualize a key element of the nervous system.

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A Challenge to Find Small Lesions in Torrents of Data Highlights Difficulties for Humans and Machines

NYU researchers won a deep learning challenge to detect lesions in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) images. We discuss the obstacles that DBT poses to deep learning and look at how our team navigated them.