MRI of Healthy Cells Vs. Cancer Cells (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

MRI of Healthy Cells Vs. Cancer Cells

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Normal cells (left) have far more sugar attached to mucin proteins than do cancerous cells (right). Mucin-attached sugar generates a high MRI signal, shown in red.

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Xiaolei Song/Johns Hopkins Medicine

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