Sentences with phrase «molecular imaging using»

Open - Source Automated Parahydrogen Hyperpolarizer for Molecular Imaging Using 13C Metablic Contrast Agents.

The Congress, Co-sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and Johns Hopkins Medicine, welcomed physicians, chemists, physicists, technologists, and all scientists and clinicians interested in translational research and current state - of - the - art molecular imaging using Ga - 68 PET radiopharmaceuticals and radionuclide therapy.

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Under the tutelage of her PhD supervisor, Southampton's Sumeet Mahajan, Professor in Molecular Biophotonics & Imaging in Chemistry & Institute for Life Sciences (IfLS), Catarina is using ultra-fast lasers to achieve the same effect but in a less invasive way.

Earlier, for his Ph.D., he used his physics training to study biological interactions at the molecular resolution — but for his postdoc he changed approaches dramatically, turning to cell biology and applying his skills to the development of high - resolution functional imaging of DNA transcription in living cells.

FDG - PET, one of the only molecular imaging techniques routinely used in oncology, employs a glucose - like probe, FDG, with a radioactive isotope of fluorine attached as a beacon.

But new molecular imaging, which can be used to complement the biopsy and is noninvasive, can provide added benefit in certain cases, especially when multiple examinations are needed.

«Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of classifying cancerous and normal breast tissues using DESI mass spectrometry imaging,» said Nathalie Agar, PhD, director of the Surgical Molecular Imaging Laboratory, BWH Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, senior study imaging,» said Nathalie Agar, PhD, director of the Surgical Molecular Imaging Laboratory, BWH Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, senior study Imaging Laboratory, BWH Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, senior study author.

For the first time, scientists have used Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging to study brain inflammation following Zika virus infection in mice, according to a study recently published online in the journal Molecular Imaging and Bimaging to study brain inflammation following Zika virus infection in mice, according to a study recently published online in the journal Molecular Imaging and BImaging and Biology.

Richards - Kortum's work brings together nanotechnology, molecular imaging, and microfabrication to address global health challenges by developing low - cost medical technologies — such as a portable microendoscope to diagnose and treat cervical cancer — for use on the ground in low - resource settings around the world.

Gijs van der Schot, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Uppsala, will describe the researchers» new approach to imaging during the AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition, held Oct. 18 - 23 in San Jose, Calif. «The X-ray laser we use for our work, the LCLS, is a fascinating machine — because of the physical principles behind it and the precise engineering of its parts — that produces very bright and ultra-short pulses,» he said.

Current molecular breast imaging systems use a traditional collimator, which is essentially a rectangular plate of dense metal with a grid of holes, to «filter» the gamma rays for the camera.

They found that using the VASH collimator with an existing breast molecular imaging system, they could get six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, which could potentially reduce the radiation dose to the patient by half from the current levels, while maintaining the same or better image quality.

C.elegans has been used for decades as a model animal to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurological disorders through a number of techniques including bio imaging, electrophysiology and behavior.

Jimmy Bell heads the molecular imaging group at Imperial College London, where he pioneered body fat imaging using MRI.

The study mostly makes use of cultured cortical neurons from rats, exploiting a wide array of molecular and imaging techniques to probe the mitochondrial function and well - being of neurons manipulated to model Wolfram syndrome.

«Molecular imaging of neuroendocrine tumors optimizes radiotherapy dose: Study shows the use of PET and SPECT tailors radionuclide treatment for neuroendocrine cancer patients and reduces the risk of toxicity.»

Scientists are taking preemptive action by using already available molecular imaging systems to determine the optimal dose of one such peptide - receptor radionuclide therapy known as yttrium - 90 DOTA0 - Tyr3 - octreotide (Y - 90 DOTATOC).

The project, which brings together physical oceanographers, marine biologists, imaging specialists, molecular biologists, bioinformaticists and modelers, uses what it calls a «holistic» and «study it all» approach, analyzing many species at once using a variety of methods, many of them automated.

Specifically, the imaging agents developed in the laboratory for use in fluorescence molecular tomography, are now even being translated into the clinic for human diagnostic applications.

Using the Nanofabrication and Imaging and Manipulation facilities at the Molecular Foundry to analyze the patterns, the researchers saw improvements in the smoothness of lines created by the photoresist, even as they shrunk the width.

The Clinical Trials Network (CTN) provides tools and resources to promote faster, more cost - effective drug development and increase the availability and performance of molecular imaging radiopharmaceuticals for use in the clinic.

«Deciphering the Aqueous Chemistry of Glyoxal Oxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide Using Molecular Imaging.»

We will use molecular, histological, calcium imaging and electrophysiological methods to characterize the sensitivity of these channels to membrane stretch by mimicking the effect of IOP on RGC perikarya and axons.

Using a combination of molecular biology, biochemical and novel multi-dimensional digital imaging approaches we study in real - time complex multi dimensional signal integration during the interaction of T cells with live antigen - presenting cells.

The profession of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging has evolved over the past several years, and continues to evolve to include imaging and therapy beyond the sole use of radioactive materials.

Methods: The international research team used surface science and imaging capabilities at DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Finally, the HZI will help develop in vivo imaging technologies to characterize (i) vaccine biodistribution and persistence, and (ii) cellular and molecular changes at the injection site and in draining lymphoid tissues, helping to refine the use of animal models.

Andrew Huberman, PhD: Each of our labs uses a variety of techniques such as anatomy or imaging, or physiology, molecular biology and genetics but no two labs are exactly the same; so what's really great about the Catalyst for a Cure initiative is that each lab is very expert in one or a few of those different techniques.

Virginia Altoe imaged the nanowires using transmission electron microscopy in the imaging facility of the Molecular Foundry.

Using single - molecule imaging, super-resolution microscopy and various biophysical and molecular approaches she will explore how gene expression in living cells works.»

Meguro, Japan (Scicasts)- Tumour detection using targeted fluorescent imaging probes is a promising technology that takes advantage of specific molecular events occurring in cancer tissues.

We are using live imaging, transgenic reporters of osteoblast gene expression and targeted RNAseq approaches to identify the molecular regulators of progressive osteoblast differentiation during expansion of the skull.

Structures composed of dimers and multimers have been extensively used in chemistry [78, 79], especially in molecular imaging [80].

This research makes use of single - molecular fluorescence imaging technology to visualize and analyze the behavior of exogenous DNA that were introduced into the cell from outside.

Importantly, the molecular imaging models that are developed can be employed to accelerate the discovery of targets and drugs for therapeutic intervention, and biomarkers that could be used for early diagnosis.

We are using live cell imaging, single cell analysis and gene editing to resolve the molecular determinants of human epidermal progenitor cell division outcomes (two progenitors, two differentiating cells or one or each) and the mode of cell division (maintenance mode vs repair mode).

Molecular imaging methods that visualize the structure and function of the living body are widely used in clinical and biomedical research settings.

The Dotiwala laboratory uses cellular, molecular, biochemical and omics approaches, as well as sophisticated in vivo imaging, to dissect the mechanism by which cell - based immunity (neutrophils, macrophages and killer lymphocytes) is activated in the presence of different pathogenic bacteria, such as intra - and extracellular bacteria, fungi and protozoa.

This includes the diagnostic, therapeutic or investigational use of radionuclides or other molecular imaging technologies.

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・ Use of single - molecular fluorescence imaging technology to elucidate the fate of DNA introduced into a living cell.

Molecular imaging includes the field of nuclear medicine, which uses very small amounts of radioactive materials (radiopharmaceuticals) to diagnose and treat disease.

By using a combination of genetics, fix and live imaging, cell biology and molecular biology techniques we are exploring the consequences of polyploidy in the brain and epithelial tissues of Drosophila.

Nuclear medicine — a vital component of the rapidly emerging field of molecular imaging — is a medical specialty that uses small amounts of radioactive materials bound to special compounds (radiopharmaceuticals) in combination with imaging instrumentation that examine molecular processes in the body to detect and evaluate disease, such as brain disorders, heart disease and cancer.

This result gives rise to the possibility of using nanodiamonds, suitably treated to attach themselves to targets that we would like to detect, as MRI markers for molecular imaging applications.

When the molecular imaging research community improves image standardization, there is a greater likelihood of harmonization; i.e., that a specific imaging procedure can be used as a marker across clinical trials; not simply for one clinical trial.

My research made use of a range of cell culture, cell imaging, molecular and bioinformatic techniques, to investigate the evolution of hydrogenosomes (mitochondrial homologues that make hydrogen) in some anaerobic protists, found in a variety of naturally anoxic habitats.

We study these questions using molecular, cellular and transgenic approaches as well as real time in vitro and in vivo imaging.

The team will continue to develop and test an imaging - based biomarker that can be used in a clinical setting to enable us to understand the molecular changes to the ganglion cells, so we can detect the disease very early on.

The Melanoma / Skin Cancer Program provides expert diagnosis and staging using advanced imaging technologies and research - based molecular testing including: