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MRI boosts confidence in brain tumor treatments

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Patients with brain tumors and their physicians alike soon may have more confidence in surgical treatment recommendations, thanks to the effects of preoperative functional MRI of language and motor areas in the brain. Scientists from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., have conducted a study to determine whether functional MRI influenced a physician’s original surgical approach for 39 patients with various diagnoses. The imaging, performed with a GE Medical Systems 1.5-T MR imager, was conducted while patients performed sentence completion and alternating hand-squeezing...Read full article

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