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Medical Physicists Devise Method to Track Alzheimer's Progression

June 1, 2003

New software is allowing neuroscientists to monitor the physical spread of Alzheimer's in a living patient. The software assembles successive MRI scans into a 3D movie that can show the progression of the disease over the years, and can help determine if a patient's medication is working.


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Martha J. Heil
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American Institute of Physics
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