Sentences with phrase «imaging processes in»

Huerta also calls attention to fluorescent resonance energy transfer, which he says, «really allowed us to start imaging processes in cells as they occur.»

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The first step in the process is to surgically remove the patient's tumor and ensure that the patient is cancer free by confirming that there is no sign of cancer on blood tests and imaging studies.
Time - resolved imaging of processes associated with exit - surface damage growth in fused silica following exposure to nanosecond laser pulses
For a theology of nature from a Reformed perspective not directly influenced by process thought but one that sees the image of God in relational terms, see Hall, Douglas John, Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1966).
In brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adultIn brain - imaging studies, teen brains show more activation in regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adultin regions that process rewards, motivations and emotions (the socioaffective circuitry in the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adultin the subcortical, limbic regions) compared to children and adults.
For example, Nick Cross, a staff scientist for the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy in the United Kingdom, develops software to process and archive imaging and other data from large astronomical surveys.
That is why Bosch employees, in collaboration with scientists from the TU Munich and the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg, investigated the filling process at the neutron imaging and tomography facility ANTARES of the research neutron source FRM II.
Other techniques advancing in the live - imaging space include multiphoton microscopy and label - free processes such as Raman microscopy and third harmonic generation imaging.
«The massive advantage with our stain-less laser - based imaging approaches is that you can use the stem cell sample without having to interrupt the developmental process in real time, you don't need to perform any cell disruption and there is no photobleaching (fading) which is fairly common with fluorescent material,» Catarina enthused.
Gaab says, «He also encouraged me to think outside the box and let me follow research ideas like the idea of imaging 5 - year - olds — which, back in 2004, nobody thought would be possible — or looking at the connection between musical training and language processing,» Gaab says.
Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.
Start - up company Zink Imaging in Bedford, Mass., devised the process, the basic chemistry of which was invented by Stephen Telfer, now senior research fellow at the company.
What is more, brain imaging studies have shown that people watching others yawning have more activity in parts of the brain associated with self - information processing.
«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus.
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) imaging, Singh and his team found that as the brain is first processing touch, it just detects differences among the physical sensations coming in.
Using imaging technology that was science fiction in the 1970s — you know it as Photoshop — she coaxed much finer detail from the original (three black - and - white images through different filters) and processed the color to a more realistic hue.
Several critical factors led the team to hope he might benefit from DBS, including the fact that sometimes he did respond and an imaging study showed that language - processing regions of his brain activated in response to spoken words.
By applying brain imaging methods, researchers at the University of Zurich now show that a small amount of psilocybin changes the processing of social conflicts in the brain.
The whole process happens too fast for imaging technology to visualize in real time — you'd need to shoot at 1,200 frames per second, 10 times faster than the best x-ray and MRI machines on the market.
«Imaging of the joint could help evaluate the mechanism of a drug's therapeutic effect, and if a process turns out to be mediated by more than one chemoattractant, understanding the mechanism would allow the rational design of combination therapies to completely shut down critical steps in the process
They have used a clinical MRI scanner of the type all neuroscience centres have to carry out a special type of scan called a T2 - weighted imaging process which is able to reveal lesions in the brain's white matter that are centred on a vein — a known indicator of MS.
To ensure accurate anatomical representation in the numerical simulations of the sprayed drug transport process, they used computed tomography (CT) scans from CRS patients and imaging software to develop anatomically realistic digital 3 - D models.
In this study, 50 patients and six healthy volunteers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialistIn this study, 50 patients and six healthy volunteers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialistin Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialists.
Strategies for automated data handling, processing, and storage workflows in a microscopy facility environment (for example, for automated whole slide imaging).
«By combining functional brain imaging and detailed behavioral assessments using a specific experimental paradigm to investigate personal relevance or meaning of music pieces, we were able to elucidate the neurobiological correlates of personal relevance processing in the brain,» Preller says.
«Advances in imaging techniques, such as 2 - photon microscopy, have allowed us to observe the adhesion process and characterise the two components.
Marek Barwinski, a vision engineer with imaging - app maker Cortexica in London, says that the «fairly restricted number of characters» in most TV series means the processing won't be too demanding.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging of Ultimatum Game players to investigate neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processes involved in economic decision - making.
The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago — mere youngsters relative to the 4.56 - billion - year age of the solar system — and may still be in the process of building, says Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team leader Jeff Moore of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California..
Interesting applications for such a power detector include wearable THz sensors for healthcare and flexible THz detector arrays for high resolution interferometric imaging to be used in biomedical and security imaging, remote process control, material inspection and profiling and packaging inspection.
In their study the researchers showed different characters to test persons and recorded via functional magnetic resonance imaging the brain activity which was set into motion by the process of seeing.
GIS is able to store, manipulate, analyse and communicate between user and data, while mobile - based QR codes technology can be read by an imaging device (such as a camera) and processed using Reed - Solomon error correction until the image can be appropriately interpreted about the tree; data is then extracted from tree patterns present in both horizontal and vertical component of the image.
Using a technique that creates high - resolution, three - dimensional images, Guerinot and her colleague Tracy Punshon, an expert at imaging metals moving through living systems, found arsenic concentrated in the grain's nutrient - rich outer layers, which are polished off in the processing of white rice but remain in brown rice.
Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating brain activity.
Magnetic resonance imaging can be used to measure brain activity, but the process requires the subject to lie still, in a tightly enclosed area.
As magnetic resonance imaging shows, environmental stimuli which the brain has already adapted to, lead to distinctly lower responses in the processing areas.
Brain imaging studies have shown that stimulation over this region modulates the functioning of fronto - striatal circuits, leading to the release of dopamine, a key neurotransmitter in reward processing.
Monash researchers, working with colleagues in Japan, have shown how molecules manage this sub-cellular voyage and have visualized the process with new, atomic - resolution imagingin real time.
«With the extra imaging processing, we were able to definitively show that this warp is a visual blend of two separate discs,» says David Golimowski of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US, who led the new study.
«Our ability to see this fundamental process in cancer formation was possible only because of access to revolutionary imaging technology,» said the study's senior author, Tom Misteli, Ph.D., Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Center for Cancer Research, NCI.
The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate connectivity in two brain networks involved in social processing: theory of mind (ToM, otherwise known as the mentalizing system, which allows an individual to infer what others are thinking, their beliefs, their intentions) and the mirror neuron system (MNS, which allows people to understand the meanings and actions of others by simulating and replicating them).
Brain imaging studies show that areas of the brain for memory and visually processing human faces in people with MCI are structurally and functionally transformed.
This process could lead to a plethora of new devices with a wide variety of applications in optics and biomedical imaging, Sun said.
IGRT is the process of using frequent imaging, typically performed in the treatment room prior to radiation delivery, throughout a patient's course of radiation therapy treatment to improve localization of the target and normal structures, which allows for more precise and accurate radiation delivery.
Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular - scale imaging technique that could let scientists view never - before - seen dynamics of biological processes involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.
That's important, he says, because for imaging dynamic processes, an increase in spatial resolution is meaningless without a corresponding increase in speed.
Similarly, while it's possible to study explosives, sans explosives, new techniques involving high - speed, high - fidelity imaging with optical filtering and signal processing techniques have recently made setting off explosives and capturing the data in real - time a reasonable alternative to developing a new simulation.
The group combines several cutting - edge single molecule imaging techniques to study how protein organization, dynamics and stoichiometry relate to protein function in several fundamental biological processes, such as intracellular transport, autoimmune neurological disorders or stem cell reprogramming.
Using a special imaging technique, Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the toxic build - up of amyloid protein is greater on the left side of the brain — the site of language processing — than on the right side in many individuals living with PPA.
Selective imaging by correlated optical and electron microscopy of protein molecules of known ages will clarify fundamental processes of protein trafficking in situ.
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