Vibrating Technology Promises to Replace Biopsies in Diagnosing Diseased Tissue
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 12:35
in Health & Medicine
Biopsies , although invasive and unpleasant, are typically the best way to diagnose the health of human tissue, especially the liver. A group of researchers and physicians at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is hoping to change this through a relatively new approach known as magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) , which they developed to measure the stiffness or elasticity of tissue and organs without the need for a scalpel. [More]