Sentences with phrase «by imaging scans»

The company is producing advanced technologies to detect cancer before a tumor can cause symptoms or be picked up by an imaging scan.

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Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of 21 undergraduate students all tasked with reading the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

Helped by the recent development of fiber - optic - bundle - coupled laser - scanning confocal fluorescence imaging (Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy — CLE), which allowed the scientists to image blood flow more deeply in the brain than ever before.

At the moment the only way to accurately measure amyloid in a living person is either via costly positron emission tomography imaging (PET scan) or by sampling cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap.

The researchers verified the structure of the nitrogenated crystal by atomic - resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy imaging and confirmed its semiconducting nature by testing it with a field effect transistor.

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

The catalytic action of individual Ni atoms at the edges of a growing graphene flake was directly captured by scanning tunneling microscopy imaging at the millisecond time scale, while force field molecular dynamics and density functional theory calculations rationalize the experimental observations.

The simplicity and low cost of a smell test — $ 26.95 retail, before additional doctor or hospital charges — make it especially appealing in neurology, a field dominated by positron - emission tomography scans, dopamine transporter single - photon emission computed tomography imaging and other expensive technologies.

At present, the scanning part is done by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Researchers led by heart imaging specialist Venkatesh Murthy, M.D., Ph.D. looked at data from two million Medicare participants who needed heart scans in the four years surrounding a six - month technetium shortage in 2010.

Imaging spectroscopy provides information about the local environment of the atoms, similar to the incredible resolution offered by scanning tunneling microscopy.

These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the brains of test participants by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

Imaging scans show the brain shifts its activity (measured by blood flow and oxygenation, indicating which neurons are heavily used at a specific time) from the prefrontal executive control regions to subcortical reactive emotion areas.

Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by scanning the brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.

For example, just before von Eschenbach arrived, NCI had agreed to fund a now - $ 350 million screening trial to see if spiral computed tomography (CT) scans could detect lung tumors missed by x-ray imaging in former smokers.

In this study, 50 patients and six healthy volunteers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialists.

This hypothesis is supported by several observations so we decided to test it by scanning the brains of individuals of varying age with functional magnetic resonance imaging and analysing the data both with fApEn and SampEn.»

The imaging software — developed and currently in use only at Cincinnati Children's — mathematically determines the lowest possible radiation dose for the patient before a scan is performed, according to the study led by David Larson, MD, radiology quality and safety director at the medical center and principal architect of the technology.

In the scans at age 8, the researchers precisely defined the VWFA for each child by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity as the children read.

The first - of - its - kind imaging software reduced overall radiation exposure from CT scans by 37 percent, according to two new studies published online today in the journal Radiology.

Of 10 men whose metastatic cancers could be measured with imaging scans, five experienced tumor shrinkage by more than half, including one man whose cancer completely disappeared.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

The primary outcome was aortic inflammation, as measured by 18 - FDG - PET / CT scans — an imaging technique that reveals inflammation in the aorta.

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study — or ABCD Study — is a $ 300 million effort funded by the National Institutes of Health that will scan the brains of some 10,000 U.S. youths, beginning when they are 9 and 10 years old and imaging them every 2 years for 10 years.

By scanning subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researcher found that, in fact, weighing possible outcomes does influence decision making.

One infrared scan can give pathologists a window into the structures and molecules inside tissues and cells, enabling fast and broad diagnostic assessments, thanks to an imaging technique developed by University of Illinois researchers and clinical partners.

In a study led by psychiatrist Ian Reid of Aberdeen, Schwarzbauer and colleagues performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of nine depressed patients before and after ECT.

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.

The participants disclosed with whom of the two characters they had a closer identification and were asked a series of questions about that person — and themselves — as their brains were scanned by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Inspired by rats and seals, scientists have developed a robotic «whisker» that detects air currents and builds two - dimensional images of what it senses using tomography, an imaging technique commonly implemented in MRI or CT scans.

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).

In a 2006 study by Montague and others, pairs of subjects had their brains scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, as they played a game requiring them to take turns.

That would be a huge boon for therapy by allowing doctors to combine visual imaging, such as MRI scans, of tumors with knowledge of their genetic make - up, says experimental oncologist Janusz Rak of McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada.

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.

«IPMNs are established precursor lesions to pancreatic cancer that account for approximately half of all asymptomatic pancreatic cysts incidentally detected by computerized tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the U.S. each year.»

Modularity metaphors have been fueled by a new brain - scanning technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

CLAIRE works by essentially combining the best attributes of optical and scanning electron microscopy into a single imaging platform.

This image produced by the Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning Tunneling Microscope reveals the location of every atom on the surface, as well as every single atomic defect in the field of view.

The Calgary Microscopy and Imaging Facility (MIF) is a world - class university - wide facility housing transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), advanced light microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), including single cell force spectroscopy (SCFS), and advanced image processing for three - dimensional electron and light microscopy, directed by Professor Matthias Amrein.

Eigler's breakthrough was made possible thanks to the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer in 1981, a device that made possible the imaging of atoms by measuring changes in the way electrons hop between a sharp probe and a specimen, as the probe shifts position.

- Imaging An AFM images the topography of a sample surface by scanning the cantilever over a region of interest.

The imaging was accomplished by means of atomic force microscopy (AFM), a scanning technique that can accomplish nanometer - level resolution.

This is a way of analyzing fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans, which measure activity in the brain by looking at changes in blood oxygen.

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

Our research combines diverse techniques ranging from genomics, computational biology, tumour imaging, in vitro and in vivo functional models to study biological and clinical phenotypes.The proteins produced by these genes may serve as targets for novel chemotherapy drugs and other cancer treatments, or imaging scans.

Computed tomographic scan in 1 infant and magnetic resonance imaging in another infant with prenatal Zika exposure show scattered punctate calcifications (A, B, C, and E; white arrowheads), very low forehead and small cranial vault (D), striking volume loss shown by enlarged extra-axial space and ventriculomegaly (all images), poor gyral development with few and shallow sulci (A and E; long white arrows), poor gyral development with irregular «beaded» cortex most consistent with polymicrogyria (F, white arrowheads), flattened pons and small cerebellum (D; black arrowhead and asterisk).

Point scanning confocal and 2 - photon microscopes which rely on building an entire image pixel by pixel are unable to provide the frame - rates necessary for imaging tissues of this size.

◊ small animal imaging: November 6 - 10 in Orléans (CFE, PHENOMIN - TAAM) ◊ ultrasound scan: thoracic and abdominal ultrasound on human phantom and on non-human primate: September 11 - 12 in Rousset - s - Arc (SdP) ◊ transparisation (CLARITY, One - for - All, iDisco): customized training in Gif - s - Yvette (TEFOR Core Facility) ◊ screening by biphotonic microscopy linked to a vibratome: customized training in Gif - s - Yvette (TEFOR Core Facility)

Each individual had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a method of brain scanning which measures activity in several areas of the brain by blood flow, while playing a card game designed to stimulate reward feelings.