Sentences with phrase «using imaging techniques»

This is done primarily by using imaging techniques such as x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, nuclear medicine positron emission tomography, and computed tomography (CT).

This is quite visible using these imaging techniques.

Using imaging techniques, the cell signaling pathway can be investigated in detail to target areas that could prevent cancer from developing.

Dr. Francois Benard's team focuses on developing and using imaging techniques to characterise tumours in patients, and in animal models of cancer.

We've been able to bridge those findings to human studies, developing ways to both look for those neurons in the retina, see whether or not they're sick using imaging techniques that Alf and Vivek have developed, and clinical tests along with Jeff Goldberg in order to detect whether or not patients are losing an excessive amount of those kinds of neurons by virtue of different types of field testing.

Currently, she is using imaging techniques to explore the effects of glucose on brain responses to food cues in children who are at - risk for developing obesity and / or diabetes later in life.

But researchers using imaging techniques show us a much more chromatic view.

Using imaging techniques, the researchers were even able to detect neural activity (see video, above), although this doesn't mean the brain is conscious in anyway.

Two other commonly used imaging techniques — magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound — often supplement mammography to detect breast cancer but are not yet reliable enough to be used by themselves for screening.

For example, does a future neuroscientist need only the knowledge to use imaging techniques or the ability to create them?

SAY FREEZE Scientists used an imaging technique called cryo - electron microscopy to snap the first close - ups of lithium dendrites, revealing them as long, needlelike crystals.

The researchers used the imaging technique in both baboons and humans.

The team used an imaging technique that allowed them to view the responses of over 100 Kenyon cells at a time and, importantly, quantify their results.

The scientists used imaging techniques to visualize the activity in certain areas of the flies» brains while these were stimulated with different odours, and they were able to localize and identify the receptor for citrus.

The international research team assessed how well the most widely - used imaging techniques measure the pathological changes expected in the brain and the accuracy with which they can predict an individual's clinical outcome.

Scientists have long used an imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET) to visualize ß - amyloid deposits marked by radioactive chemical tags in the brains of people with AD.

Researchers also used imaging techniques to look at two regions of the participants» brains — the insula and orbitofrontal cortex — known to be involved in salty taste.

Gupta and other researchers at NYU, in a study in the May 2016 issue of JOM, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, demonstrated that defects inserted in 3D printed components can be so small that they can avoid detection by commonly used imaging techniques but can nonetheless affect the performance.

Drawing on ADNI data, which helped link Alzheimer's disease to a common gene called CLU, researchers used this imaging technique in other people to discover that the brain wiring of gene carriers is impaired decades before the disease typically strikes.

Gross is most interested in using the imaging technique to ask fundamental questions about the way bond type influences the properties of a molecule.

Neuroscientist Andy Shih of the University of California at San Diego uses this imaging technique to measure vessel diameters and track blood flow rates, which change constantly depending on the needs of the local neurons.

Typically, an individual experiencing a heart attack is rushed to the hospital where doctors use imaging techniques such as angiography to determine the site of the blood clot, prep the patient, and then perform an artery - opening interventional cardiac catheterization, also known as balloon angioplasty and stenting.

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.

Oncologists commonly use this imaging technique to help locate tumors, establish the stage of those cancers» progression, and determine whether they have stopped growing in response to therapy or are relapsing or metastasizing.

In this proof of concept study, Dr Stephen Jolles and colleagues from the University Hospital of Wales used an imaging technique called FDG PET - CT to simultaneously assess anatomical structure and metabolic activity in a patient with GLILD.

Future research will use this imaging technique to study electrical activity in mouse brains as they perform tasks, helping correlate brain activity to behavior.

The researchers then added virus capsids to the receptor - membranes and observed the resulting changes to the capsid shell using an imaging technique called cryo - electron microscopy.

Not exact matches

Whanger built on their findings by examining high - resolution photographs that uncovered new details of the image, as well as using 3D imaging techniques.

Using sophisticated computer - driven imaging techniques like PET (positive emission tomography) and the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers opened up new details about the operation of the brain.

As anyone who has been following the subject of sports - related head injuries knows, the concern about RHI has continue to grow exponentially over the past four years, as researchers have used ever more sensitive and sophisticated imaging techniques such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and fMRI to identify short -, medium, and long - term effects on the brain of RHI.

We wanted to evaluate these players before the season using these techniques, monitor the blows they experienced to the head during the season, then have them come back at various points during and after the season to determine whether or not we were detecting changes in the neurocognitive testing or the functional imaging, relating to these concussions in particular.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

And then we also were going to do neuroimaging where, in particular, we're using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, which looks at blood flow in the brain and therefore tells us what regions of the brain are involved in a task.

The discoveries were revealed using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) and other noninvasive imaging techniques, according to panel of experts during a Feb. 17 news briefing at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting.

In contrast to invasive approaches using electrodes, Daniel Huber's team specializes in optical techniques for imaging and stimulating brain activity.

«There was this initial thought that [circulating tumor cells] are only present at late stage,» says Sollier - Christen, but she notes that in the past year, several studies using more sensitive techniques have found such cells much earlier in tumor development, even before the tumor becomes visible by conventional imaging techniques.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.

They studied the bone metabolism at the cellular level using advanced imaging and computational techniques, which allowed them to identify 142 metabolites that were significantly altered by more than 1.5 times in the diabetic mice.

I became interested in BME while working at CTF Systems, a company that uses quantum nanoelectronic devices manufactured with conventional microfabrication techniques to manufacture medical imaging (MEG) systems.

To learn more, Dr. Masselli and colleagues used an MRI technique called diffusion - weighted imaging (DWI) to examine pregnant women who had been referred for suspected fetal or placental abnormality.

«Only about five percent of the first degree family members of a person with diabetes will develop occult disease,» Gaglia, who is firm that for the moment this imaging technique should only be used in the context of research.

Progress has recently been made in implementing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can be used to obtain images in a fraction of a second rather than in minutes.

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.

The method they have developed uses an electromagnetic imaging technique called magnetotellurics to estimate the electrical conductivity beneath Earth's surface.

I was very intrigued by the idea of peering inside the brain using new brain - imaging techniques.

But new work, using modern imaging techniques, is revealing more detail — not only about the original painting, but also about Picasso's.

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.

Then, Lorin Milescu's students used live - imaging techniques and software developed in their lab to demonstrate that the Gr28bD protein can, through temperature differences, modulate the brain activity of fruit flies.

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.