UCLA launches brain SPECT venture

AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Jun 19, 2005

The Harbor-UCLA Faculty Practice Plan is teaming with Brain Matters, a Denver-based software provider, to launch a state-of-the-art brain function imaging service next month.

Based at the Harbor-UCLA Professional Building in Torrance, CA, the service will employ high-resolution brain SPECT functional imaging to evaluate patients with suspected Alzheimer's disease, dementia, stroke, seizures, autism, ADHD, traumatic brain injury, and other issues.

A kickoff reception for the service will be held on June 30, with a keynote address on leading-edge neurological imaging given by former Harbor-UCLA nuclear medicine chief Dr. Ismael Mena.

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
June 20, 2005

Copyright © 2005 AuntMinnie.com

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