Imaging Archive — Page 12 of 14

Multi-panel medical imaging comparison showing whole-body views at left and paired coronal chest and neck scans in fused, grayscale CT, and color-coded formats; red arrows and a dashed red line mark areas in the lower set.
June 25, 2015

Grant to spur study of ‘brown fat’s’ metabolic mysteries

Vanderbilt researchers have received a $2.15 million grant to study the amount and activity of “brown fat” in adults, with the aim of understanding its role in metabolic disease and identifying new therapeutic targets.

Patient table entering a brightly illuminated medical imaging scanner, viewed head-on with vivid green, blue, and red lighting.
June 17, 2015

Lit up COX-2 cancer probe

A new imaging probe developed by Vanderbilt investigators enhances tumor visibility and has broad applications in diagnosing and monitoring patients with cancer.

False-color axial brain scan showing red, yellow, green, and blue regions against a black background.
June 16, 2015

A view of brain function in disease

Vanderbilt investigators report the first use of a specialized type of MRI to study the hippocampus in patients with schizophrenia.

Close-up of a human eye with a sharply focused black pupil and a rainbow spectrum reflected across the iris; the surrounding face is blurred and grayscale.
March 2, 2015

Results challenge conventional wisdom about where the brain begins processing visual information

A new brain imaging study challenges conventional wisdom about how and where in the brain the processing of visual orientation information first occurs.

Researcher uses a super-resolution microscope while a monitor displays a red, detailed microtubule image.
January 22, 2015

VUMC research cores speed pace of discovery

Progress against America’s most intractable health challenges, among them heart disease, cancer and diabetes, requires the best minds, the latest tools and the easy collaboration demanded by 21st century science.

reading instruction
October 29, 2014

‘White matter’ behaves differently in children with dyslexia

Trans-institutional neuroimaging research at Vanderbilt finds that the brain may be structured differently in children with dyslexia.