http://www.refscan.info Magnetic Resonance Imaging news, information, and journal club, with minimal spin. Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:40:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Magnetic resonance imaging of acute "wiiitis" of the upper extremity. We present the first reported case of acute "wiiitis", documented clinically and by imaging, of the upper extremity, caused by prolonged participation in a physically interactive virtual video-game. Unenhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated marked T2-weighted signal abnormality within several muscles ... http://www.refscan.info/2008/04/07/mri-of-acute-wiiitis/ RefScan has been pretty moribund of late, mainly because I have been preparing for a cross country move and tying up loose ends at my postdoc. Please rest assured that there will be new content regularly appearing again in the near future. For a few weeks though, the dry spell ... http://www.refscan.info/2007/06/01/stay-tuned/ The father of Magnetic Resonance Imaging passed away on Tuesday: Physicist Paul C. Lauterbur, who received a 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for giving physicians the ability to look inside the human body without using harmful radiation, died Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 77 and had ... http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/29/paul-lauterbur-dies-at-age-77/ This isn't exactly a surprise, but worth mentioning anyway: Before the ink was dry on the government's 2007 budget (or even completed for that matter), the Bush administration's proposal for the 2008 budget was submitted on February 5th, and the news for biomedical researchers was not very good. According to sources ... http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/13/nih-funding-running-dry/ An MRI unit exploded last year at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Maryland. This was actually caught on film by a local TV crew! Neat. Just for fun, here's a bonus video of a chair stuck in a magnet. That looks like a lot of work. http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/12/video-of-mri-explosion/ news flash: emotions sometime trump rational thought! Shocking, I know. Though I was intrigued at how the fMRI paradigm in this case provides a neat empirical example for why prisoner's dilemma models don't translate well into real-world practice: A classic economic example is the "ultimatum game," in which one participant gets ... http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/11/research-money-well-spent/ Matt McIntosh, writing at Gene Expression, proposes The Lamp Post rule for discussions of science and science policy. Simply stated, "All arguments conducted in a state of relative ignorance must be algebraic." Head over to GNXP for details. http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/09/the-lamp-post-rule/ The Scientist has released the results of its annual poll and the verdict: MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ranks highest, followed by the J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco and the Environmental Protection Agency in the Research Triangle Park. Via Ars, The most important criteria identified in the ... http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/08/best-places-to-postdoc-in-the-us-2007/ An editorial in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine (J Nucl Med. 2007 Mar;48(3):331. PMID: 17332606) argues that combination PET/MRI systems are the future and will supplant PET/CT: In a number of ways, the path to PET/MRI has been reverse of that to PET/CT. The first PET/CT design emerged from industry–academia collaboration ... http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/07/pet-and-mri/ Did anyone else see this article? I came across it on msnbc.com - "Scientists Try to Predict Intentions: using brain scans to read minds before thoughts turn into actions" (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17464320/) I haven't read anything Dr. Haynes has published in peer-reviewed journals on the topic (I'll see what I ... http://www.refscan.info/2007/03/05/scientists-trying-to-read-your-mind/