{"id":18612,"date":"2021-08-05T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18612"},"modified":"2021-08-05T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:37:12","slug":"new-scanning-technology-could-help-diagnose-alzheimers-disease-using-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18612","title":{"rendered":"New scanning technology could help diagnose Alzheimer\u2019s disease using light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov)<\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the VA Bedford and VA Boston health care systems have developed a non-invasive optical technique to help detect Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The new technique uses spectroscopy \u2013 measuring how light is scattered and absorbed when passing through matter \u2013 to identify structural changes in the brain.\u00a0 Continue reading the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/92688\/new-scanning-technology-could-help-diagnose-alzheimers-disease-using-light\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov) Researchers with the VA Bedford and VA Boston health care systems have developed a non-invasive optical technique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medical-technology","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18613,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions\/18613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}