Sentences with phrase «as magnetic resonance imaging»

This is why we carry a wide range of cutting edge veterinary technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), full laboratory testing capabilities, hyperbaric oxygen chamber for pets, videofluoroscopy, modern ultrasound capabilities, electrocardiogram, advanced surgical suites, and more.

Advanced imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging, is now being used more often to diagnose the presence of cardiac masses in patients with pericardial effusion.

While advanced modes of imaging such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scanning are not available to most veterinary hospitals, plain radiography usually is.

Tests such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computerized axial tomography (CAT or CT scan) are specialized tests that can examine the structure of the brain itself.

Other tests, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) may have to be scheduled.

Other imaging tests such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography scan and x-rays can be used to find out problems in your spine.

By Anne Harding TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2008 (Health.com)-- Radiologists who read imaging exams — such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT scans — may do a better job if they see a picture of the face that goes with the diagnostic test, according to research presented this week at the Radiology Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago.

Interpret the results of neuroimaging studies such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.

They also use noninvasive imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), to study the development and functioning of the primate brain

Studies of meditation carried out with other techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography, have revealed different patterns of neural activity — not surprisingly, since meditation is a complex behavior that evokes many different psychological states.

The vast majority of modern brain research involves technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging, positron - emission tomography, and electroencephalography.

As magnetic resonance imaging shows, environmental stimuli which the brain has already adapted to, lead to distinctly lower responses in the processing areas.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

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That company is pioneering medical uses for carbon molecules called nanospheres, such as attacking cancer cells and dramatically improving magnetic - resonance - imaging contrasts.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

As a result, trained sports medicine physicians can use it as a replacement for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate certain musculoskeletal injuries involving muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, bursa, and bone surfaceAs a result, trained sports medicine physicians can use it as a replacement for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate certain musculoskeletal injuries involving muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, bursa, and bone surfaceas a replacement for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate certain musculoskeletal injuries involving muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, bursa, and bone surfaces.

«David's technique could be as important to medicine as MRI [magnetic resonance imaging].»

As functional magnetic resonance imaging came into common use, researchers learned the brain was also involved.

There are also experimental techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which allow us to understand which parts of the brain are most active when we are involved in different cognitive activities.

Instead, the team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to detect populations of cells that seemed to fire as the volunteers played a virtual reality game in which they had to replace an object in the location where they originally found it.

As the program booted up, I noticed that the video was a cardiac MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) study.

Compared with healthy controls, patients with chronic fatigue syndrome had less activation of the basal ganglia, as measured by fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging).

A recent study by investigators from LIJ Medical Center demonstrated that using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in men with an elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) resulted in a prostate cancer detection rate that was twice as high as data reported in the March 1999 Prostate journal that analyzed men undergoing the standard 12 - core biopsy with an elevated PSA.

18 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines generate a field 60,000 times as intense as the earth's to vibrate the hydrogen atoms in your body; in response, the atoms emit radio waves that are analyzed to produce a map of your insides.

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which measures the anatomy and structural integrity of the brain, and magnetoencephalography (MEG), which measures magnetic fields created by the brain's electrical activity, were used to track potential age - related differences as groups of younger and older adults performed a memory task.

The team tracked the patient's brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) while posing simple questions, such as whether he had a brother.

His primary tool is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which can create images of the brain responding as the body is hurting.

Until recently, such topics would have been out of the reach of cognitive neuroscience for lack of methods; today, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to watch the brain «in action» as normal human participants make decisions about responsibility and punishment.

The past century's great advances in medical diagnosis and treatment — including kidney dialysis, artificial body parts such as lenses and joints, magnetic resonance imaging, and genetic testing — could have happened only with crucial contributions from physical scientists and engineers, who will also be needed for the next generation of health care miracles.

In the first decision of its kind, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that functional magnetic resonance imaging shouldn't be permitted in the courtroom as a new type of lie detector.

Mitragotri reckons that the particles could provide a way to get drugs into the body at a more constant concentration, or substances such as iron oxide nanoparticles, which increase contrast in magnetic resonance imaging.

As the subjects thought of a story in their native tongue and then in a second language, the researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor brain activity.

Its possible utilization in higher - accuracy chemical analysis, as well as in magnetic resonance imaging — MRI — technology, are also of interest.

In 1990 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provided a safer way to track sensations and emotions as they occurred.

Sinha and her colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study brain activity in people exposed to stimuli ranging from highly stressful — images of mutilated bodies or someone pointing a gun — to neutral, such as a chair, table or lamp.

Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by scanning the brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.

Different types of cognitive tasks spur activity in various regions of the brain, as indicated by studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Then, using magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers scanned the teenagers» brains while they performed verbal tasks, such as reading or naming objects, and nonverbal tasks, such as solving visual puzzles with their hands.

In the scans at age 8, the researchers precisely defined the VWFA for each child by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity as the children read.

The technique, magnetic resonance imaging, is more usually used for examinations such as brain scans to detect tumours.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers recorded brain activity patterns as subjects listened to stories of human distress.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

Although noninvasive imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) can track activity in the brain, they provide limited resolution.

Over the past decade, her Western University colleague Adrian Owen has demonstrated that it is occasionally possible to detect awareness in unresponsive individuals by asking them to follow commands, such as to imagine playing tennis, while measuring their brain activity in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine.

Your call for caution in the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a research tool for assessing and explaining brain function was timely (19 October, p 32), particularly as it is widely used to pinpoint male - female differences in cognitive abilities and performance.

And its ability to show the shape of dendrites and trace neuronal processes provides contextual information unavailable through imaging techniques such as electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Your call for caution in the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a research tool for assessing and...

It took the best part of 50 years to work out how to make a superconducting magnet and half as much time again to develop the first killer application, magnetic resonance imaging.

Scientists used a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), known as diffusion weighted imaging, to measure the brain connectivity in 260 infants at the ages of 6 and 12 months, who had either high or low risks of autism.

Beauchamp and Nath followed up on that study with a new one in which they scanned people's brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as they played McGurk videos of mismatched sounds and lip movements.