Special: High Visibility to the Inner Core – Imaging Procedures

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James Steidl

“It is only with the heart that one can see clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” This often cited quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is certainly among the most beautiful quotes from literature and applies to many a situation in life.

The latter for the longest time unfortunately also applied to physicians, who often were not able to tell what exactly was wrong with their patients. Imaging procedures which allowed us to look “inside the human being” were not discovered until Conrad Röntgen at the end of the 19th century. Since then, the development of many and ever better procedures cannot be stopped anymore.

Find out more in our current Special at COMPAMED.de

COMPAMED.de asked Doctor Lukas Scheef from the Functional Neuroimaging Group, Experimental Radiology of the Department of Radiology at the University of Bonn, how the newly applied gentle procedure for schizophrenic patients works, how blood flow patterns in the brain are made visible and how schizophrenic patients can profit from this in the long run.
- CASL-MRI: “We are the first in the area of schizophrenia research to use and apply this procedure in this way”

Most diseases of the human body cannot be captured with the naked eye. Only medical imaging procedures make it possible to visually illustrate diseases, to clearly identify structures and to simplify diagnostic investigation.
- A Look Into the Inner Core – Innovative Imaging Procedures Help Get to the Bottom of Diseases

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