Sentences with phrase «for tracer studies»

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Starting in the mid-1990s, scientists began using GFP as a tracer for studying biochemical processes.

When the results were compared with studies in the literature using standard radiocolloid tracers the researchers found that the SN biopsy using tilmanocept provided a high identification rate and low false negative rate for SNs, thus facilitating accurate prediction of the spread of the cancer.

«We're responsible for producing radio tracers: radioactive drugs that we use to study the imitation, onset and progression of disease in people,» Schaffer says in a teaser video previewing his lecture.

The study compared the effectiveness of the new tracer with 11C - choline (already widely used for imaging prostate cancer) in two mouse models and also performed the first PET / CT scan with 11C - sarcosine of a human with prostate cancer.

However, the authors suggest that increasing the size of the detectors or the amount of radioactive tracer could help to overcome these issues, and propose that their technique could be useful for the study of both biological and non-biological systems.

Objectives: This study tested the efficacy of gallium -68-labeled DOTATATE -LRB-(68) Ga - DOTATATE), a somatostatin receptor subtype - 2 (SST2)- binding PET tracer, for imaging atherosclerotic inflammation.

Changes in tracer distribution in the troposphere and stratosphere are calculated from a control and doubled CO2 climate simulation run with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Global Climate Middle Atmosphere Model.

Rind, D., J. Lerner, J. Jonas, and C. McLinden, 2007: The effects of resolution and model physics on tracer transports in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies general circulation models.