Sentences with phrase «now imaging techniques»

Now imaging techniques are providing answers by following microbes on the move.

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Injuries were once the key to learning how the brain worked, but advanced imaging techniques are now giving us detailed maps of where our skills arise

Whereas analyses of the brain were once limited to autopsy samples at the time of a person's death, advances in an imaging technique known as positron emission tomography (PET) now enable researchers to detect amyloid and tau in the brains of living people.

Now, using a high - resolution eclipse - imaging technique, a team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic has linked the strange patterns to plasma eruptions on the sun's surface, called solar prominences.

«Proxima b has drawn a chalk line high up on the wall, and we are all now jumping to reach it,» says Matthew Kenworthy, an astronomer who works on new planet - imaging techniques at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands.

Until now, scientists couldn't examine dendrites so closely because the only technique for imaging battery components with atomic - level resolution destroys these fragile filaments, explains study coauthor Yuzhang Li, a materials scientist at Stanford University.

Using a new imaging measurement technique the impact of therapeutic treatments and rehabilitative interventions can be now determined more quickly and directly than before.

With our technique, high contrast wide field imaging with high signal to noise ratio is now possible, which leads to high sensitivity wide field imaging.»

Now a team of researchers from Central South University in China have demonstrated that a technique known as photoacoustic imaging, which is already under investigation for detecting skin or breast cancers and for monitoring therapy, also has the potential to be a new, faster, cheaper and non-invasive method to detect, diagnose and stage cervical cancer with high accuracy.

Now MIT researchers have developed an imaging technique that, for the first time, enables three - dimensional mapping of serotonin as it's reabsorbed into neurons, across multiple regions of the living brain.

But now, thanks to advances in brain imaging techniques and improved understanding of numerical cognition in general, new insights into the disorder have begun to emerge.

Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating brain activity.

A team led by Professor Theo Lasser, the head of the Laboratory of Biomedical Optics (LOB) at EPFL has now made strides to address the issue by developing a technique that can perform both 3D super-resolution microscopy and fast 3D phase imaging in a single instrument.

Now, researchers are hoping to improve this imaging technique, known as molecular breast imaging or breast specific gamma imaging, with better image quality and precise location (depth information) within the breast, while reducing the amount of radiation dose to the patient for these procedures.

Advances in brain imaging techniques mean we are now able to pinpoint the precise brain regions involved in the near - miss effect and identify how they interact with people's vulnerability to problem gambling.»

Some at the workshop hope to adapt ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging techniques now used to study the heart and brain to measure blood flow and oxygenation in the placenta.

Techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which highlights metabolically active areas of the brain, now allow neuroscientists to probe the biology behind bad intentions.

«Some type of whole - body MRI imaging test is available at many big children's hospitals right now,» she said, adding that for such techniques to be widely adopted, doctors are asking for evidence that whole - body MRI does the job.

Up until now, researchers who wanted to observe neuronal activity in real - time often used a technique called calcium imaging.

Now plans are underway to use the imaging technique to decrypt other relics, including the Fra Mauro world map from 1455 and the earliest surviving globe from 1492, says Chet Van Duzer, the map historian who led the Martellus project.

Having grown to know the analytical technique of nuclear magnetic resonance as NMR, I was intrigued to discover that in medical imaging it now goes under the name of MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance imaging.

Now armed with the human genome and a combination of cutting - edge genetic methods and brain imaging techniques, lab scientists are now exploring the neural circuitry of living animals in ways they could likely have never dreamed of even just 20 years aNow armed with the human genome and a combination of cutting - edge genetic methods and brain imaging techniques, lab scientists are now exploring the neural circuitry of living animals in ways they could likely have never dreamed of even just 20 years anow exploring the neural circuitry of living animals in ways they could likely have never dreamed of even just 20 years ago.

Since his departure from the Lab, Chapman has continued with his interest in molecular imaging with FELs and in 2009 led an international collaboration to carry out the first experiments in this area at LCLS, where a global team introduced a new technique now called serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX).

Now a research team led by Broad Institute Imaging Platform director Anne Carpenter and postdoctoral fellow Mohammad Rohban has shown that a high - throughput, computerized imaging technique for studying morphology, called Cell Painting, can provide insight into the cellular roles of genes or disease - linked gene alleles whose function or impact is uImaging Platform director Anne Carpenter and postdoctoral fellow Mohammad Rohban has shown that a high - throughput, computerized imaging technique for studying morphology, called Cell Painting, can provide insight into the cellular roles of genes or disease - linked gene alleles whose function or impact is uimaging technique for studying morphology, called Cell Painting, can provide insight into the cellular roles of genes or disease - linked gene alleles whose function or impact is unknown.

Her use of intraoperative near - infrared imaging has provided improvements in operative sentinel lymph node mapping techniques, surgical treatment of chylothorax, and other applications, and is drawing the attention of other veterinary schools that are now implementing these operative imaging techniques in their clinics.

Thanks to advances in equipment and technique, a multidisciplinary team of clinicians from UC Davis» Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine, Soft Tissue Surgery, Anesthesia, and Diagnostic Imaging Services are now having unprecedented success treating NLA blockages.

Now, thanks to advances in equipment, technique and teamwork, clinicians from UC Davis» Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine, Soft Tissue Surgery, Anesthesia / Critical Patient Care, and Diagnostic Imaging Services are seeing unprecedented success treating NLA blockages in multiple species.