Sentences with phrase «body scan in»

Tense your way to relaxation: This is a body scan in which you intentionally tense your muscles in order to get your body to relax.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix now offer such passengers a body scan in lieu of a pat - down.

«Although there are likely several benefits for using body scanning in retail environments, I think retailers and other businesses need to carefully consider their uses of 3 - D body scanning,» she said.

Not exact matches

Brain scans of obese patients who had lost 10 % of their body weight revealed that less leptin leads to increased activity in regions of the brain that control our desire to eat.

Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

By using her startup's body - scanning technology app, women could, theoretically, get a bra fitting in the comfort of their own home as accurate as one from a seamstress.

In 2013, the iPhone maker acquired PrimeSense, a company that developed sensors for Microsoft's Kinect, a camera system that scanned people's bodies so people could play Xbox games using body movements.

This is surely waiting long enough (the half life of technetium, which is used in most radioactive scans is only six hours, so that 12 hours after the injection, 75 % of it will be out of your body).

«Whenever I lie down in bed and am feeling tense, I take a deep breath and, as I release it, I do a quick body scan practice like we learned in class.

I have a jetsetter badge or two, and even a «Baggage Handler» badge from when I checked in and commented that I had a regular scan, full body scan, and a pat down!

Retired Italian radiologist Paul Gostner was reexamining body scans of Ötzi taken in 2001 and 2005 when he noticed a previously unidentified organ near the mummy's intestine.

Window on the body: CT scans become art Radiologist Kai - hung Fung makes beautiful and informative art from the scans of his patients, and you can see his prizewinning work in our gallery

These days, medical X-rays come in multiple formats: plain film used in dental exams and doctors» offices; fluoroscopy, which bounces a continuous X-ray beam off contrast agents you've either injected or ingested, providing a moving real - time image of arteries and intestines; and the computed tomography (CT) scan, which couples a powerful computer with a circular array of extremely sensitive detectors to turn X-rays into detailed cross sections of the body.

Because, despite the ever - more detailed images provided by modern CT and MRI scans, there's no telling the true extent of the damage until a patient's body is opened up in the theater.

A hydrogel containing the bacteria could be used to fabricate cellulose dressings in the exact shape of a body part or organ based on a CT scan, Rühs says.

This brain could sit on a shelf until technology has advanced enough for us to scan and re-create the neural network in a new robot body or virtual environment.

In those studies, researchers assessed body composition using DXA scanning, an advanced way of measuring fat and muscle mass.

The technique will give a picture of the body's naturally occurring sodium and how it is trafficked in the body and will not require any invasive addition of sodium to the scanned subject.»

Current clinical MRI uses hydrogen in the body's water and fat to produce scans, but this does not provide all the information about tissue health and disease progression stages.

Intravital two - photon bone imaging is superior compared with conventional analyses of the shape and form of a tissue because it enables two - dimensional scanning in bone in a focal plane to observe cell shapes and the appearance of mOBs and mOCs in the body.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

While the scan was in progress, participants looked down at their bodies and a scientist stroked their hand or abdomen.

The researchers used computed tomography (CT) scans to evaluate the severity of abnormal calcium deposition in one of the largest blood vessels in human body, the abdominal aorta.

The sheet of light scans the body of the cell in two different laser colors in about one second, during which time about 200 images are taken.

A body scan reveals a lemon - size mass in the chest of a 16 - month - old boy.

NOAA, NASA, EPA, and the U.S. Geological Survey announced, in April, a $ 3.6 million multi-agency research effort designed to be an early warning system for freshwater nuisance and toxic algal blooms by using satellites that can gather color data from freshwater bodies during scans of the Earth.

However, other scans suggested there may be more to the story: Partial animals are often found in elaborate packages paid for by wealthy patrons who could probably afford a whole cadaver (especially since there are plenty of cheaper examples containing compete bodies).

In a traditional X-ray machine, a filament emits electrons when it is heated above a certain threshold, and those electrons fly through the body and hit a metal electrode on the other side, creating images; CT scans produce three - dimensional images by rotating the electron source.

Despite these findings, Ridgway said that 3 - D body scanning technology provides exciting opportunities for future research and will continue to provide further insight into the unique experience of viewing one's self in 3 - D.

Health care providers can monitor bone health of pediatric patients by ensuring that they maintain a healthy body weight, are engaging in weight bearing exercise and have adequate nutritional intake of calcium and vitamin D. Routine imaging with DXA scans is not recommended at this time, she noted.

Participants are recruited from retirement communities and subsidized housing facilities in and around Chicago to participate in annual clinical evaluations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and to donate their brains and other parts of their bodies for research after their deaths.

When he scanned their brains, Blanke found that the test subjects produced the signature brain patterns seen in others reporting an out - of - body state.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

This technology could, for example, increase patients» comfort by distancing them from the detectors when having MRI scans in hospital, or allow MRI images of different parts of the body to be obtained simultaneously.

Since 1992, telescope scans of the sky have detected nearly 1000 bodies in the Kuiper belt, a band of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune.

The increase in medical radiation exposure (from 0.53 mSv to 3.0 mSv) stemmed primarily from a rise in the use of computer tomography (CT) scans (which use x-rays to create cross sectional images of inside the body to spot tumors, clogged arteries, among other things), and nuclear imaging tests, which involve injecting radioactive chemicals into the bloodstream that can be picked up by special instruments and used to create images of the body's inner structures.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low - dose radiation, which in this research they define as equivalent to 100 millisieverts or roughly the dose received from ten full - body CT scans.

The increase in body fat and the distribution of fat in the body was measured using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI scans) before and after the weight gain, as was the muscle mass in the body.

Subcutaneous and visceral fat are located in different areas of the body on a CT scan, making it possible to calculate the proportion of each.

By displaying the different velocities, astronomers can, in effect, cut this cosmic bubble into virtual slices, similar to the way MRIs and CAT scans reveal different layers of the human body.

In contrast, other imaging procedures (for example, X-ray and CT scan) obtain images by using machines that send radiation through the body.

They also took echocardiograms in conjunction with the PET scans and used stable isotopes to monitor whole - body metabolism and how this influences the heart.

The remaining 50 participants that showed abnormality either in the PET scan results or cerebrospinal fluid have all experienced significant disruptions in their body clocks.

The DEXA scan analysis can be also used to value the body composition in lean and fat tissue.

New MRI scans show that dolphin brains are four to five times larger for their body size when compared to another animal of similar size, according to Lori Marino, a senior lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University, and one of the world's leading dolphin experts.

Body composition was unaltered in Lyplal1 knockout mice as assessed by Dual - energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanning, both on normal chow and on a high fat diet.

It's in the deep level of physiological rest during meditation, that your body scans and unlocks that stored stress, recognizing that it is foreign and not meant to be stored in there.

According to Dr. Rothberg, the most reliable way to measure body composition is with a DEXA scan or Bod Pod device, two tools that are typically found at medical centers, fitness clinics, or in research settings — not your bathroom — and use high - tech methods to compare fat tissue to lean mass.

I scan my body to connect with how I'm feeling in the moment.

The whole body is now in «fight - or - flight,» ready to outrun the tiger, even though in reality, the only thing Mom can do is wait a week until her follow up scan.