The project, a New
Zealand first titled
Accuracy and Equity in Prostate
Cancer Diagnosis, will be led by the Clinical Lead at
Mātai, Dr Daniel Cornfeld, and is aimed at vastly improving
this country’s current diagnostic pathway in prostate
cancer for patients in the public health system,
particularly for those who live in under-served and remote
communities.
Dr Cornfeld, previously Chief of
Abdominal MRI at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Associate
Professor of Radiology at the Yale University School of
Medicine, works adjunctly as Chief Radiologist at Hauora
Tairāwhiti, Gisborne’s public hospital, and says the
project will chart the efficacy in New Zealand of a model of
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 9:06 am
(Hoboken, N.J. and Gisborne, New Zealand – May
6, 2021) – Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
images are usually meant to be static. But now, researchers
from Mātai Medical Research Institute (Mātai), Stevens
Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University
of Auckland and other institutions, report on an imaging
technique that captures the brain in motion in real time, in
3D and in stunning detail, providing a potential diagnostic
tool for detecting difficult-to-spot conditions such as
obstructive brain disorders and aneurysms – before they
become life threatening.
The new technique, called 3D
amplified MRI, or 3D aMRI, reveals pulsating brain movement