Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is an important tool to help doctors see what’s happening inside your body. But new, ...

At this year’s European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Bayer presented new data on a contrast agent that could ...

Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) used in MRI and angiography contain a chelated form of the toxic heavy metal that was assumed to clear the body shortly after intravenous administration. [1] ...

Gadolinium is a lanthanide metal (atomic number 64) with seven unpaired 4f electrons, conferring exceptionally high paramagnetism that underpins many research and technological applications. In ...

Japan’s Super-Kamiokande detector, a massive underground neutrino observatory, has completed its most sensitive search yet ...

New research suggests that MRI with contrast may create nanoparticles that infiltrate your tissues. The research is preliminary, and more work needs to be done. Doctors stress that MRI with contrast ...

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is an important tool to help doctors see what’s happening inside your body. But new, preliminary research suggests that a contrast agent used in some MRIs could ...

University of New Mexico researchers studying the health risks posed by gadolinium, a toxic rare earth metal used in MRI scans, have found that oxalic acid, a molecule found in many foods, can ...