Sentences with phrase «cubic millimeter»

Normally there are 500 to 1,200 of these cells per cubic millimeter of blood.

The implant is only a few cubic millimeters in volume but contains five sensors, a radio transmitter and a power delivery system.

AIDS is diagnosed when the CD4 count falls below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood.

I mean, The Essential phone fits a 5.7 - inch screen in a body that's actually a few cubic millimeters smaller.

A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide - field microscope thinner than a credit card, small enough to sit on a fingertip and capable of micrometer resolution over a volume of several cubic millimeters.

He hopes to learn more about the brain's wiring in his next project: a map of an entire cubic millimeter.

«In a computer model we are using very small volumes of space, on the order of one cubic millimeter on one end to a cubic meter on the other end» he says.

By applying the technique known as voxelation, developed by collaborators at UCLA, spatially defined regions (1 cubic millimeter in size) of the mouse brain can be characterized to develop three - dimensional (3D) relationships between cells and molecular networks.

MRI scans can capture the entire brain, but they can get down to a resolution of only a few cubic millimeters, not nearly fine enough.

A slice down to about one cubic millimeter can create a whole new (while tiny) individual with the exact same genome, which can grow from a tiny fragment into a normal sized nematode.

For detecting a single tumor, the volumetric accuracy was 1.2 cubic millimeters, a minute fraction of a cubic inch (0.00007), which Dr. Gonzalez called «extremely accurate.»

Likewise, accuracy for multitumor detection was 5.4 cubic millimeters, or 0.0003 cubic inches.

In a mouse model of triple - negative breast cancer, mice injected with cancer cells that over-express ZMYND11 had tumor volumes of less than 50 cubic millimeters while control mice and those injected with cells expressing ZMYND11 deficient for binding to the methyl group had tumor volumes ranging from 150 to 400 cubic millimeters at eight weeks.

Using a polyvinyl alcohol / phosphoric acid gel as an electrolyte, a solid - state micro-supercapacitor made from a pair of fibers offered a volumetric density of 6.3 microwatt hours per cubic millimeter, which is comparable to that of a 4 - volt -500-microampere-hour thin film lithium battery.

The product's developers, engineers and scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the United States, believe the storage capacity by volume (called volumetric energy density) is the highest reported for carbon - based microscale supercapacitors to date: 6.3 microwatt hours per cubic millimeter.

StimDust is just 6.5 cubic millimeters in volume and is powered wirelessly by ultrasound, which the device then uses to power nerve stimulation at an efficiency of 82 percent.

«Producing a three - dimensional map of just a cubic millimeter of the brain with an electron microscope requires processing petabytes of data,» Dyer said.

Each cubic millimeter contains perhaps 100,000 cells connected by 1,000,000,000 synaptic connections.

Shaving a cubic millimeter of brain tissue would yield a petabyte of data.

The size of the specimens he worked with might seem minuscule to an outsider — about 1 cubic millimeter, comparable in size to a coarse grain of sand — but to Agee, such a speck is a world in miniature.

Mapping the connectome inside a cubic millimeter of brain tissue would give Seung enough data to make statistically significant observations about how neurons are connected.

That scale, Seung suspects, is about one cubic millimeter: a pinch of brain tissue that could sit atop the period at the end of this sentence.

«That's how you can go from a lab experiment a cubic millimeter in size to saying sweeping things like, «The whole process of differentiation and core formation wrapped up very fast in geologic terms, taking only a few million years,»» he says with a lingering flutter of amazement in his voice.

In addition, the task of injecting atoms into the trap seemed daunting because the volume of the trap would only be 0.001 cubic millimeter.

In two seconds, the center's scanner can pinpoint such activity down to a cubic millimeter — about the size of a peppercorn.

Every standard deviation increase in the inflammation score was also associated with a hippocampus volume that was 110 cubic millimeters smaller and the volume of other areas affected by Alzheimer's disease was 532 cubic millimeters smaller.

And it doesn't take much — a drop just one - thousandth of a cubic millimeter is enough to trigger the color change.

Yet, even at its highest spatial resolution (1 cubic millimeter), each voxel — the smallest distinguishable element of a 3D object — contains tens of thousands of neurons.

The only way we can limit the exposure is to just deliver to a cubic millimeter of the brain, and in order to do that, you have to have extremely small cannulas,» Cima says.

A standard formula for calculating tumor volume (in cubic millimeters) was used: length × (width) 2/2.

He notes that a typical brain scan may focus on an area of about 1 cubic millimeter (0.00006 cubic inch).

The sum of metastatic tumor volume was first calculated from four lobes of lungs per animal (see Materials and methods), and the lung metastasis per group is presented as tumor volume (cubic millimeters).

A standard formula for calculating tumor volume (cubic millimeters) was used: length × (width) 2/2.

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology

That cylinder in the middle of the image is the tiny, cubic millimeter - sized chunk of mouse neocortex studied as a test case for nanoscale brain imaging technology (Credit: Harvard University)

«In a cubic millimeter of brain there is about two terabytes of image data,» Lichtman says.

A human brain has something on the order of a million cubic millimeters, which means you'd need around two million terabytes to store a map of its wires.

You need to look at every cubic millimeter of brain to see every synapse, which is necessary to map the brain's connectome in full.

Every cubic millimeter counts, and shaving down the face size causes even more problems.