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Exploring Brain Function With Magnetic Resonance Imaging

A useful brain imaging technique uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to analyse metabolic changes such as blood oxygenation.

These non-radioactive labels can be incorporated into small molecules to study in vivo metabolic pathways in real-time.

The diagnostic breast imaging tool Positron Emission Mammography uses short-lived positron isotopes to detect breast cancer.

Brachytherapy techniques have been a powerhouse in the treatment of cancer since the beginning of the twentieth century.