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Infrared Scattering Could Detect Alzheimer’s
A team of researchers has learned how to distinguish between brain tissue with and without Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by evaluating the near-infrared optical properties of the gray matter.
A team of Massachusetts researchers has learned how to distinguish between brain tissue with and without Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by evaluating the near-infrared optical properties of the gray matter (Opt. Lett. 33, 624). Although the researchers used slices of postmortem human brain tissue, they predict that the spectroscopic technique might be extended to living patients.
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