MRI technique could now expand treatment time for stroke victims

A recent study by scientists from Trinity College Dublin has shown how a new MRI scanning technique, which looks at sodium levels rather than water levels in the brain, offers the potential to extend the time-window during which drug therapy may be given to stroke patients. A paper on the study was recently published in the Nature group Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, and represents the culmination of several years of collaborative research between Prof Andrew Fagan, Professor of Medical Physics at Trinity who is also of the HRB Centre for Advanced Medical Imaging (CAMI) research centre in…