Sentences with phrase «for magnetic resonance»

Moreover, the bulk billing incentive for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services will be reduced from 15 to 10 per cent of the Medicare Benefits Schedule fee.

Fujitsu's new tech allows designers of wireless charging solutions to significantly reduce the time it takes to design transmitters and receivers for magnetic resonance charging.

During the three - day conference, participants will hear presentations and panel discussions that consider the technology and science drivers for MRX, how the facility would best serve a variety of scientific disciplines and perhaps most importantly shaping the next step for magnetic resonance to reach its full potential.

At its 25th annual meeting, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) awarded postdoctoral fellow Thomas Benkert a Young Investigator Award for research that extends continuous imaging to fat / water separation.

Later, when the guys reached young adulthood, the research team created pictures of the structures in their brains using a technology known as MRI, for magnetic resonance imaging.

The team used iron oxide for the core of the nanoparticles, which not only enables the team to use them for magnetic resonance imaging, but opens up possibilities in remote guidance and localized magnetic heating to hasten the breaking up of the clots.

Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Honolulu

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 23rd meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2015

He has served as a principal or co-investigator on several training grants, including the NIH T32 Graduate Training Program for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the NIH R25 Cancer Nanotechnology in Imaging and Radiotherapy.

Having grown to know the analytical technique of nuclear magnetic resonance as NMR, I was intrigued to discover that in medical imaging it now goes under the name of MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance imaging.

Researchers from PSG College of Technology, India have developed nano - contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as well as optical imaging of cancer cells.

Perhaps the best known patents are those for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-- widely used in body scanners — which are managed by the BTG for the University of Nottingham.

To investigate the effects of the disaster on residents, the researchers recruited 42 of their earlier subjects for magnetic resonance imaging scans 3 to 4 months after the quake.

«Crash diets, also called meal replacement programmes, have become increasingly fashionable in the past few years,» said lead author Dr Jennifer Rayner, clinical research fellow, Oxford Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

As a result, trained sports medicine physicians can use it as a replacement for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate certain musculoskeletal injuries involving muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, bursa, and bone surfaces.

Not exact matches

That company is pioneering medical uses for carbon molecules called nanospheres, such as attacking cancer cells and dramatically improving magnetic - resonance - imaging contrasts.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.

The company recently won FDA approval for its MRIdian Linac system, which is a product that marries radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) together.

The brain activity for these two tasks is sufficiently differentfor the researchers to be able easily to distinguish the responses in the functional - magnetic - resonance (fMRI) images of the patients» brains.

The turquoise kidneys and the blue - green hearts form a kind of magnetic resonance image of Los Angeles: a many - chambered nautilus of pools in the prosperous precincts of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, while in South Central L.A. — where municipal pools must often close for lack of funds — the organs appear blackened and necrotic.

More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.

Currently, no role exists for computed tomography scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasonography in the routine evaluation of patients with reflux disease.

SIGNA ™ Premier is a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system developed through the GE - NFL Head Health Initiative, which aimed to develop new imaging tools, particularly to aid in the detection of biomarkers for the potential diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scientists found that the hippocampus, the brain area responsible for long - term memory, is smaller in people suffering from MS than in healthy adults.

After productively using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study protein structure during a Ph.D., she switched to structural mass spectrometry for her postdoc in the United Kingdom.

Two other commonly used imaging techniques — magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound — often supplement mammography to detect breast cancer but are not yet reliable enough to be used by themselves for screening.

Paul Matthews, director of the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain at University of Oxford, also sees lots of opportunities for skills beyond biology when it comes to imaging.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

In each case, binding leads to a characteristic proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) for the dihydrogen that appears in a spectral window in the range delta = 0 to -20 parts per million, and as well to characteristic values of the coupling JHD and of the relaxation time T1.

Beginning in 2009, they used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of patients prior to treatment for depression; they then followed the patients through the course of therapy, generally for four weeks.

Neuroscientist Christopher I. Petkov of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tbingen, Germany, and his colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the macaque brain.

«For example,» he says, «there is a worldwide shortage of magnetic resonance physics graduates who are interested in a career in neuroscience imaging.»

The research team used the Dipole Coil Resonance System (DCRS) to induce magnetic fields, which was developed by the team in 2014 for inductive power transfer over an extended distance.

In this new study and for the first time, scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with a standard clinical trial design to derive an unbiased brain - based neurological marker to predict analgesia associated with placebo treatment in patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis pain.

For this research, a total of 28 subjects were imaged with a variety of imaging modalities, including standard imaging with computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and molecular bone scan (SI); PET with a common radiotracer called fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG - PET); and PET with computed tomography and the agent Zr - 89 IAB2M (IAB2M PET / CT) assessed in escalated doses.

For the present study, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain response to sensory stimulation in 35 women with fibromyalgia and 25 healthy, age - matched controls.

These three institutes have long collaborated; in 2002, they teamed up with the nearby Institute for Structural Biology (IBS), which contributed its complementary expertise in crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electron and mass spectrometry to form the Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB).

Just before the teenage years, «the rate of growth for many skills kind of slows down,» says Deborah Waber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston and the lead author of a paper that reports the results of the behavioral component of the NIH Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study of Normal Brain Development.

1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectra should be included in supplementary materials for all synthesized organic compounds.

One of Rosemary Renaut's projects focuses on the development of reliable and sensitive neuroimaging analysis tools for use with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

Until recently, such topics would have been out of the reach of cognitive neuroscience for lack of methods; today, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows researchers to watch the brain «in action» as normal human participants make decisions about responsibility and punishment.

The past century's great advances in medical diagnosis and treatment — including kidney dialysis, artificial body parts such as lenses and joints, magnetic resonance imaging, and genetic testing — could have happened only with crucial contributions from physical scientists and engineers, who will also be needed for the next generation of health care miracles.

An international research project led by Kazuyuki Takeda of Kyoto University and Koji Usami of the University of Tokyo has developed a new method of light detection for nuclear magnetic resonance — NMR — by up - converting NMR radio - frequency signals into optical signals.

The scientists studied 13 patients with acute spinal cord injuries every three months for a year using novel MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) protocols.

Two mornings a week for the better part of an 18 - month stretch, you could find Russell Poldrack with his head inside a giant metal doughnut — the business end of a magnetic resonance imager.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- based screening program for individuals at high risk of pancreatic cancer identified pancreatic lesions in 16 of 40 (40 percent) of patients, of whom 5 five underwent surgery, according to a report published online by JAMA Surgery.

In addition to tapping $ 1.5 billion in core facilities that include the first supercomputer in the region, an industrial - class a nofabrication lab, a top - rated visualization center, and a dozen state - of - the - art nuclear magnetic resonance machines, faculty members will get from $ 400,000 to $ 800,000 apiece per year for 5 years to outfit and staff their labs.

He is a member of The Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and The American Association for the Advancement of Science and has also been awarded three PNNL Divisional Outstanding Performance Awards.

Authors examined the association between SVD and AD pathology by looking at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- based microbleeds (MB), white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and lacunes (which are measures for SVD) along with certain protein levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) which reflect AD pathophysiology in patients with AD, VaD and healthy control patients.

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).