If you are a parent, then you probably first laid eyes on your child through an ultrasound procedure—the technology that uses high-frequency sound waves to view soft tissue. It is undeniably one ...

“This, in combination with the abdominal ultrasound, might suggest the patients will benefit from deeper investigation, including MRI.” Because the exocrine pancreas helps with digestion of ...

Dr. Wallace says two screening tests are recommended for pancreatic cancer: MRI and endoscopic ultrasound. "Screening should be done in a center that can conduct a high-quality MRI and a procedure ...

The latest advance from Clevers and his group is the development of a new organoid that mimics the human fetal pancreas, offering a clearer view into its early development. The complete structure ...

EUS-FNA denotes endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine-needle aspiration. Panel A shows characteristic high-risk stigmata on imaging studies, including biliary obstruction, main pancreatic duct (MPD ...

A man with Alzheimer's, knowing there's no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in ...

In 2015, Canan Dağdeviren was working as a postdoc at MIT when she learned that her aunt, Fatma, had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. Dağdeviren, whose work focused on ...

To diagnose any problems associated with the pancreas, several types of tests can be conducted. This includes blood tests, imaging studies, such as a CT scan, MRI, or ultrasound, and pancreatic ...

In a recent study posted to Preprints with the Lancet, researchers examine the pathophysiology of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the pancreas and the ...

Pancreatic cancer develops from uncontrolled cell growth in the pancreas. Doctors may use an ultrasound to help detect pancreatic cancer as part of their diagnosis. Symptoms of pancreatic cancer ...

Here, Kanyi Pu and a team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Donghua University in China have used ultrasound for the first time for an effective sonodynamic ...