date:Jul 30, 2013
n order to sustain their growth.
The researchers found that sensitising an MRI scanner to glucose uptake caused tumours to appear as bright images on MRI scans of mice.
First author Dr Simon Walker-Samuel, from the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI) said: GlucoCEST uses radio waves to magnetically label glucose in the body. This can then be detected in tumours using conventional MRI techniques. The method uses an injection of normal sugar and could offer a cheap, safe alternativ