The polymer that absorbs wetness in a diaper is now a critical element of a new
imaging approach called expansion microscopy.
Not exact matches
Using a microscopic
imaging approach,
called cryo -
imaging, and MRI, the researchers verified that the MRI technique could detect micrometastases, even observing bone micrometastases that were less than 0.5 mm — the diameter of a very fine pencil lead.
The new study combined a statistical
approach implemented in a unique software modeling programme
called IONONEST with data from the Kilpisjärvi Atmospheric and
Imaging Receiver Array (KAIRA) radio telescope in Finland, which is capable of making sensitive broadband measurements of the absorption caused to the cosmic radio background by the ionsophere.
The project, which brings together physical oceanographers, marine biologists,
imaging specialists, molecular biologists, bioinformaticists and modelers, uses what it
calls a «holistic» and «study it all»
approach, analyzing many species at once using a variety of methods, many of them automated.
The new
approach described in today's published paper is
called restriction spectrum
imaging - MRI or RSI - MRI.
An
approach called functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), for example, records changes in blood flow that occur when a spark of activity passes through a particular brain region.
During this time, Dr. Wang invented a novel MRI
approach called diffusion basis spectrum
imaging (DBSI).