World Population Day: Appreciating The Human Brain With Gadolinium

 

                                               Location Of Gadolinium In The Periodic Table 

Gadolinium is named after Johan Gadolin (1760–1852), a Finnish-Swedish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist. 

• The element gadolinium itself was identified by Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, a Swiss chemist, in 1880.

• He detected a new element in a sample of didymium oxide using spectroscopy and called the new oxide "gadolinia".

• This gadolinia contained the element now known as gadolinium, named in honor of Johan Gadolin.

Applications Of Gadolinium

Gadolinium In MRI 

Neurology: Detecting brain tumors, MS plaques, infections, blood-brain barrier disruption

Cardiology: Visualizing myocardial infarction, myocarditis

Oncology: Identifying tumors and metastases

Musculoskeletal: Highlighting inflammation or neoplasms

                                                  Seeing The Brain With Gadolinium

Current Events

Worlds Population Can Appreciate The Human Brain With Gadolinium 

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