A team of researchers have developed a method that could make magnetic resonance imaging - MRI - multicolour to help improve disease diagnosis.The current MRI techniques rely on a single contrast agent which is injected into a patient's veins to vivify images. The new method uses two at once, which could allow doctors to map multiple characteristics of a patient's internal organs in a single MRI. The strategy could serve as a research tool and even aid disease diagnosis.
An Associate Professor in Cleveland, Ohio, US said, "The method we developed enables, for the first time, the simultaneous detection of two different MRI contrast agents." Two contrast agents could include one specifically targetting diseased tissue, and one designed to show healthy tissue, for example. The new method would enable immediate comparisons of how each agent distributes in the same patient.This multi-agent…
