Sentences with phrase «by noninvasive»

Pulse wave velocity is measured by noninvasive devices that track the speed of blood flow by calculating differences between arteries in the neck and the leg.

Circulating cell - free DNA (cfDNA) isolated from plasma or serum by noninvasive procedures can serve as a «liquid biopsy» and has potential as a biomarker for the tumor burden and survival prediction of breast cancer (BC).

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Noninvasive medical - testing equipment — the real - life versions of the scanning devices used by «Star Trek» medics — will probably be a focus of the fund.

Led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, an international panel of pathologists and clinicians has reclassified a type of thyroid cancer to reflect that it is noninvasive and has a low risk of recurrence.

Now, the «smart» bandage developed by the team provides direct, noninvasive measurement of tissue oxygenation by combining three simple, compact and inexpensive components: a bright sensor molecule with a long phosphorescence lifetime and appropriate dynamic range; a bandage material compatible with the sensor molecule that conforms to the skin's surface to form an airtight seal; and an imaging device capable of capturing the oxygen - dependent signals from the bandage with high signal - to - noise ratio.

One experimental group received only cognitive training; the second group received cognitive training and exercise; and the third group received cognitive training, exercise and noninvasive brain stimulation delivered by electrodes on the scalp.

Contrast home usage with the seminal 2000 paper authored by Nitsche and his colleagues that tested whether noninvasive brain stimulation could help people recover movement after a stroke.

The dawn of the noninvasive brain stimulation movement is widely attributed to a 2000 paper by German neurophysiologists Michael Nitsche and Walter Paulus.

Dr. Patel's team conducted a study to determine if a noninvasive urinary test could help diagnose adrenal cancer by detecting differences in small molecules in the body.

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.

Being able to monitor and predict pathogens by routine, noninvasive sampling of the built environment and sequencing to identify the bacteria, rather than waiting for cultures to grow, could be a useful approach for identifying potential hotspots of transmission that are currently unknown.»

«They've made the first comparative study using nonhuman primates of the cerebral processing of voices, and they've done it with a noninvasive technique by training dogs to lie in a scanner.»

«By showing that trained subjects have increased activity in the primary motor cortex when performing surgical tasks when compared to untrained subjects, our noninvasive brain imaging approach can accurately determine surgical motor skill transfer from simulation to ex-vivo environments,» Mr. Nemani said.

A visitor demonstrates a noninvasive glucose monitor invented by Robert Langer (left).

With this noninvasive method, researchers may be able to follow the progression of many brain disorders, including epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease, by measuring changes in synaptic density over time.

By interfacing brain cells onto graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown they can differentiate a single hyperactive cancerous cell from a normal cell, pointing the way to developing a simple, noninvasive tool for early cancer diagnosis.

Noninvasive imaging using PET and other technologies reduces the number of animals in a study by permitting the use of animals as their own controls, according to the authors.

«Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease: Researchers gauge a cell's stiffness, which can reflect cancer or other conditions, simply by watching it.»

The Nature study, titled «Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microbes in mammalian hosts,» was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Packard Fellowship, the Pew Scholarship, the Heritage Medical Research Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

The images produced by this duet have given scientists their first noninvasive view of living cells in action.

«It should be noted that glucose is present not only in the blood but also in tears, and thus accurate monitoring of the glucose level in human tears by employing a contact - lens - type sensor can be an alternative approach for noninvasive glucose monitoring,» the researchers wrote.

Quite a bit is known about the physiology of response to threat, and some of this can be measured by simple noninvasive tests.

Divided into two broad approaches, invasive and noninvasive, brain stimulation works by targeting specific sites to adjust brain activity.

With recent developments in contrast agents and pulse sequences, some state - of - the - art techniques greatly improve the MR image quality by overcoming the time and spatial resolution limitations and have been used for noninvasive evaluation of hepatic steatosis and vascular and biliary anatomy.

«These results suggest that brain networks might be used to help us better understand why brain stimulation works and to improve therapy by identifying the best place to stimulate the brain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology at HMS.

«We studied asymptomatic individuals with a low risk of cardiovascular events at baseline and used noninvasive imaging to predict the risk of an event downstream,» said David A. Bluemke, M.D, Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. «This is the first population - based prospective study to determine if vulnerable plaque features by MRI add to the risk of a cardiovascular event beyond the traditional risk factors.»

«If the trial proves successful, it represents a big moment in this field of medicine: For the first time we could have an FDA - approved form of noninvasive brain stimulation to help people with stroke by promoting concrete motor improvements.»

The labs, led by Sirlin and Ehman, invented and validated the advanced noninvasive imaging techniques applied in this study.

Cervigrams are images taken by digital cervicography, a noninvasive visual examination method that takes a photograph of the cervix.

Often the feasibility of using stem cells for regenerative therapies is limited by two factors: obtaining a significant number of cells and doing so in a relatively noninvasive manner.

This type of noninvasive approach to optogenetics could also represent a step toward developing optogenetic treatments for diseases such as epilepsy, which could be controlled by shutting off misfiring neurons that cause seizures, Boyden says.

Noninvasive transcranial stimulation is being increasingly used by clinicians and neuroscientists to alter deliberately the status of the human brain.

The prototype for a noninvasive screening test for cancer is developed by Cancer Center researchers.

Meanwhile, researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have shown that noninvasive ultrasound can restore memory in mice with AD, by breaking apart the neurotoxic beta - amyloid plaques in the brain they think cause cognitive decline.

Noninvasive Prenatal Testing by Nanopore Sequencing of Maternal Plasma DNA: Feasibility Assessment

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) by maternal plasma DNA sequencing is now clinically available for screening fetal chromosomal aneuploidies; these tests have close to 99 % sensitivity..

Here, we show that in noninvasive human breast cancer cells, disruption of this complex by knocking down LARP7 releases P - TEFb, redistributing it to the transcriptionally active SEC complex.

Noninvasive ways to improve pelvic blood flow are as follow: — pelvic floor muscle training, performed by a pelvic health physiotherapist — digital myofascial and trigger points release of the pelvic floor muscles — acupuncture point combination to improve the flow of blood and Qi in the pelvis

Since it is noninvasive and safe, MRI is an excellent diagnostic tool that can lead to early detection and treatment of many health issues by imaging soft tissue and providing information about your pet's brain, spinal cord, sinus cavities, nose, ears, as well as joints and internal organs.

Laser therapy is a new, noninvasive, painless and side - effect free therapeutic treatment offered by Winter Park Veterinary Hospital for your dog or cat.

Ultrasounds are a valuable tool in veterinary medicine — they allow veterinarians the ability to gain priceless information often missed by other diagnostic methods in a noninvasive procedure.

Noninvasive fecal genotyping was presented by Melissa Gray, a UCLA graduate student.

Its stand - out feature though, is RFID tracking, which will be a able to tell a user the nutritional value of a food product just by scanning its RFID tag, another the feature that the smartwatch is expected to have, apart from regular fitness features such as sleep tracking, heart rate analysis and exercise tracking is noninvasive blood glucose tracking — the device might be a boon for diabetics as it might be able to tell a person's blood glucose level without invasive injections, which are currently the norm.

Under general supervision and according to established procedures, conducts noninvasive vascular tests in order to provide data used by physicians in diagnosis and treatment of venous disorders.