Sentences with phrase «doing magnetic resonance»

Not exact matches

Researchers from the Hockey Concussion Education Project, an independent collaboration of specialists from Canada and the United States, examined the effects of concussions on 45 male and female Canadian university hockey players through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analyses done on players before, during and after a single hockey season.

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.

In other words, unlike other injuries, concussions are usually injuries no one sees and, contrary to popular belief, don't show up on most magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams or CT scans.

Although students at this level learn the basics of techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy in school, «they don't have the advantage of using instruments,» Hewson points out.

Arguably the most convenient and least invasive way of doing that is through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI — a technique that measures changes in blood flow and blood oxygen levels in the brain, thereby showing which parts of the brain are activated when people perform various tasks.

At the start of the study, all the participants did some Web searching while the scientists monitored their brain activity by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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

The scans — done with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI — show which sections of the five brains became more active during the ads, thereby revealing what's really going on in people's heads.

To find out what happens in the brain, fifteen people who like cheese and fifteen who do not were selected and participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study.

But careful analysis of the volunteers» eye movements, combined with measurements of brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging, revealed that the hippocampus was often retrieving memories even if these recollections didn't make it to the level of consciousness.

Do not be misled by the word «fuzzy»: Fuzzy Approximate Entropy (fApEn) is a method that offers better sensitivity for understanding the complexity of noisy images produced by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Echocardiography (ultrasound imaging of the heart) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging do not expose patients to ionizing radiation.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

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

Do this lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and you will have an idea of what researchers instructed 12 female and nine male subjects, all right - handed, to do so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future eventDo this lying in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and you will have an idea of what researchers instructed 12 female and nine male subjects, all right - handed, to do so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future eventdo so they could attempt to determine the regions of the brain exclusively used when humans envision specific future events.

To see if texaphyrins gravitate to tumors just as their porphyrin cousins do, Sessler used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan cancerous mice before and after a texaphyrin injection.

Sadee contacted Alessandro Bertolino at the University of Bari in Italy, who was doing research that involved monitoring the brain activity of 117 volunteers with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during memory tests.

Using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging, Schipul and Just found that the brain activation of ASD individuals was slower to become familiar with the pattern they repeatedly saw, — meaning their brains failed to register the «oldness» of the patterns to the same degree that the control participants did.

Dr Karen Mullinger from The University of Nottingham's Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre said: «This work opens a new window of time in the fMRI signal in which we can look at what the brain is doing.

Conventional techniques used to image proteins, such as X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, don't work with fibrous structures such as amyloids.

The experiments will be done using EMSL resources, including atomic force microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction.

1) Brain imaging research techniques such as PET scans (positron emission tomography) and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) clearly show that the vast majority of the brain does not lie fallow.

He'd found his way from the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, where he'd done his PhD on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, to Uppsala, in Sweden, where as a young post-doc he was learning X-ray crystallography from Alwyn Jones.

Not only did he excel in academic work, winning the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his advancement of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, but Wüthrich was also an avid sportsman.

Magnetic resonance images (MRI scans) of everyone's brains were taken before and after they completed the meditation training, and a control group of people who didn't do any mindfulness training also had their brains scanned.

By Anne Harding TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2008 (Health.com)-- Radiologists who read imaging exams — such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT scans — may do a better job if they see a picture of the face that goes with the diagnostic test, according to research presented this week at the Radiology Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago.

While I wish the movie didn't play so fast and loose with many of the facts, Hooper and Coxon have still structured a story of self - acceptance and discovery that transcends its historical inaccuracies and allows it to ascend to a level of magnetic emotional resonance I found impossible to resist.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the scientists saw several areas of the brain become active in the average - ability boys while they did the task.

Our test model doesn't include a stylus, but Asus offers a $ 399 configuration with an electro - magnetic resonance pen and a Gorilla glass touch - screen display, rather than the plastic anti-glare one.

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).

For example functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), children with a history of preschool - onset depression demonstrated distinct patterns of brain activation, which were similar to those of adults with depression.34 Other research documents that DSM - IV criteria for depression do not adequately capture the disorder's course in preschool - aged children.35 Similar to the heightened awareness regarding preschool depression, evidence suggests that young children can also suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder when age - adjusted diagnostic criteria are employed.36