Sentences with phrase «ct scanning technique»

The researchers confirmed this finding by looking at embryos of lizards, alligators, and birds using a new contrast - stained CT scanning technique.

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Currently, doctors use a variety of imaging techniques and tests to diagnose and monitor prostate cancer including PSA blood tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), and computerized tomography (CT) scans.

Diagnostic techniques common in human medicine, such as CT and MRI scanning and molecular studies, are now being used to improve insight into the causes.

Seismic tomography is similar to commonly used medical imaging techniques like computed tomography, or CT, scans.

However, «the CT scan didn't show the outline of the nervous systems unambiguously enough,» Strausfeld said, «while a scanning laser technique mapping the distribution of chemical elements showed iron deposits outlining the nervous system almost as convincingly but with minor differences.»

By using new techniques based on computerised X-ray micro-tomography (CT scan) and digital three - dimensional modelling, Benoit found that the maxillary canal of therapsids, a bony tube in the snout of the animal that houses the trigeminal nerve, is shorter in therapsids than in reptiles.

The primary outcome was aortic inflammation, as measured by 18 - FDG - PET / CT scans — an imaging technique that reveals inflammation in the aorta.

In the last few years, cutting - edge CT scans and other novel techniques have dramatically altered how paleontologists visualize and study ancient life.

Using a combination of scanning techniques (positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT)-RRB-, the researchers were able to track the progress of the tracer as it moved around the body.

The LDA approach uses powerful computer techniques to overlay the CT scan taken during a full inhalation with an image taken during a full exhalation.

MRI is ideal for medical imaging because it's milder than techniques like CT scans or X-rays since it's not as invasive and does not rely on ionizing radiation.

Instead, biophysicist Fernando Montealegre - Z detected the structure while examining three - dimensional images of the insects» inner ears from high - powered CT scans — a noninvasive technique used to examine fossilized bones and other artifacts without causing damage.

As venom glands don't fossilise, Benoit and his colleagues from at Wits University, in association with the Natural History Museum of London used cutting edge CT scanning and 3D imagery techniques to analyse the only two fossilised skulls of the Euchambersia ever found, and discovered stunning anatomical adaptions that are compatible with venom production.

The team consisting of Dr. Stephan Lautenschlager and Professor Emily Rayfield from the University of Bristol, Professor Lindsay Zanno from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University, Dr. Perle Altangerel from the National University of Ulaanbaatar, and Professor Lawrence Witmer from Ohio University employed high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT scanning) and digital visualisation techniques to restore a rare dinosaur fossil.

The group is applying advanced image analysis techniques to 4D CT scans already performed as a standard step in targeting lung cancer radiotherapy, to map areas of lung function without additional testing.

Inspired by rats and seals, scientists have developed a robotic «whisker» that detects air currents and builds two - dimensional images of what it senses using tomography, an imaging technique commonly implemented in MRI or CT scans.

To better understand its origin and life history, scientists examined the skeleton, organs, and ancient DNA using a myriad of techniques: anthropological investigation, a complete body CT scan, isotope analysis, tissue histology, molecular identification of ancient parasitic DNA, and forensic injury reconstruction.

Unlike other techniques, CT scans (and MRI scans) can show the inside of the head, including soft tissue, bones, brains and blood vessels.

What's more, the technique used to create the reconstruction, atomic electron tomography (which is like an incredibly high - resolution CT scan), lays the foundation for precisely mapping the atomic composition of other useful nanoparticles.

The technique, called FDG PET - CT, uses the anatomical data obtained by CT scan, and overlays it with metabolic data of glucose uptake by cells in tissues.

Previous studies, relying on conventional techniques, did not detect the oddly shaped skull, but by performing CT scans on the fossils Friedman «unequivocally» demonstrated the cranial asymmetry.

The osmium staining technique, developed by Yale researcher Mark Horowitz, PhD, allowed Styner's group to use micro CT scans to color code the bone samples based on the density of the osmium.

«What this trial doesn't answer is if you can do this same thing with CT scans,» Broderick said, noting that future research should fold these new assessment techniques into the current battery of stroke - related CT imaging.

The GHBMC's anatomically accurate human body models are built using data culled from MRI, CT and other medical scanning techniques.

Cervical stenosis is diagnosed by a combination of history, physical examination, and advanced imaging techniques, such as CT scan, MRI, and myelogram.

Spinal radiographs, myelography and other imaging techniques (CT scan) may be necessary.

Services are supported by up - to - date diagnostic procedures, including body ultrasound; endoscopy of the respiratory system, stomach and bladder; and high resolution radiography, CT scan and MRI techniques.

The ability to use advanced diagnostic techniques such as ultrasound, endoscopy, CT scans and MRI are readily available.

If you are referred to a veterinary cardiologist, they may also recommend other advanced imaging techniques (such as cardiac CT or cardiac MRI scans) for diagnosis of complex heart diseases or cardiac catheterization procedures to treat certain congenital heart diseases such as pulmonic stenosis and patent ductus arteriosus.

Veterinarians rely on many of the same diagnostic tools and treatments that doctors use for human patients, including MRI and CT scans, hip and knee surgery, laser surgery, cancer vaccines, flu shots, ultrasound, and alternative medicine techniques such as acupuncture.

Our services are supported by up - to - date diagnostic procedures, including body ultrasound; endoscopy of the respiratory system, stomach and bladder; and high resolution radiography, CT scan and MRI techniques.