Sentences with phrase «imaging scan»

All subjects underwent magnetic resonance imaging scans, which the researchers analyzed with specialized software to reveal differences in the volume of brain structures.

All the volunteers were assessed using a standard battery of cognitive tests, plus brain imaging scans, before and after the 10 - week period.

Each participant, ranging from 7 - 32 years of age, had repeated imaging scans over the course of several years.

The patient lies on a table in the treatment position while imaging scans identify the tumor's exact location and characteristics.

He or she may request X-rays or other imaging scans to view the digestive organs and check for foreign matter in the stomach or intestines.

The doctor may also order imaging scans, such as a CT scan or MRI, to further evaluate any brain damage.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans and periodic cognitive tests were used to assess brain volume and function.

One abnormality that researchers have observed in functional magnetic resonance imaging scans of the brains of people with schizophrenia is an unusually low level of activity from a specific group of neurons near the brain stem.

A 3D model of merged imaging scans shows the brain areas affected by age (blue) in healthy people (left) and longterm cocaine users (right).

In another study, those who reported SCI were also more likely to show changes in their brains on imaging scans, specifically demonstrating higher levels of beta - amyloid protein.

Denis said the use of the app was linked to 50 percent reduction in imaging scans per patient per year.

Dogs were retrospectively selected from Electronic patient records (Rx Works 4.2.1560, RxWorks Inc., 2010) from May 2004 to August 2010 (stored at the Royal Veterinary College and Stone Lion Veterinary Hospital) and assessed for suitability by reviewing T2 - weighted transverse and mid-sagittal MR imaging scans using Image Viewer software (Image Viewer 4.0.18, Visbion, 2009) according to the following criteria:

«Limit imaging scans for headache?

Of 10 men whose metastatic cancers could be measured with imaging scans, five experienced tumor shrinkage by more than half, including one man whose cancer completely disappeared.

To capture the elusive electronic behavior, Chung - Koo Kim, a postdoctoral fellow in Billinge's group, and Kazuhiro Fujita, a Research Associate in Davis» Group, worked with Davis using a spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscope invented by the latter.

This image produced by the Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning Tunneling Microscope reveals the location of every atom on the surface, as well as every single atomic defect in the field of view.

Muscle weight and size can be measured in various ways, including actual weight of cadaver muscles, the cross-sectional area as recorded by imaging scans, or the volume as measured by the sum of several cross-sections.

With the decreasing cost and increasing efficiency of genome sequencing, he predicts that sequencing a cancer genome in a patient will soon become a standard of care, similar to an magnetic resonance imaging scan before surgery.

It wasn't until the 36 - year - old actress and model saw an ear - nose - and - throat doctor, and underwent imaging scans, that she got a correct diagnosis: an irregularity in the arteries lining her brain, called an ateriovenous malformation (AVM), that was causing the blood vessels above her ear to pulsate.

«Imaging scan records brain activity during epileptic a.» ScienceDaily.

Moreover, researchers can already interpret a person's neural activity from functional magnetic resonance imaging scans at a rudimentary level1 — that the individual is thinking of a person, say, rather than a car.

Imaging scans like this are «subject to deductible» under Prudence's policy, so she must pay for it herself, or out - of - pocket, because she hasn't met her deductible yet.

Individuals also underwent baseline imaging scans commonly used in studies of Alzheimer's disease, and annual assessments with the 30 - item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), an assessment used to detect depression in older adults.

For example, about 2 million positron emission tomography (PET) medical imaging scans are performed in the USA each year.

Doctors currently rely on external ultrasound probes combined with pre-operative imaging scans to visualise soft tissue and organs during keyhole procedures as the miniature surgical instruments used do not support internal ultrasound imaging.

The study used state - of - the - art imaging scans with positron emission tomography, which measures blood flow to the heart muscle and identifies areas of reduced blood flow, at rest and following stress.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

A recent imaging scan hints at hidden chambers that could offer insights into questions surrounding the life and death of the boy pharaoh and his place in Egyptian history

Imaging scans revealed he had a 1.3 - centimeter lesion in his right lung and enlarged lymph nodes, suggesting a malignancy had metastasized.

Once the researchers have collected the information, some individuals may be asked to undergo a SPECT imaging scan to examine the integrity of the dopamine system.

Diagnostics performed by your veterinarian in Glen Allen VA include blood tests, urine tests, biopsies and imaging scans such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and x-ray scans.

Performed localization procedures, diagnostic x-ray, and computed tomography imaging scans, under the direction of a Radiation Oncologist.

Brain imaging scans show increased activity in the amygdala of sleep deprived subjects and decreased activity in the prefrontal and insular cortex.

Greater involvement on imaging scans was related to greater average reductions in lung function (forced vital capacity): up to 18 percent for those with extensive pleural and / or parenchymal changes.

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Houston Baptist University presentedVirgil Grotfeldt, 274296, a hauntingly beautiful final body of works painted on magnetic resonance imaging scans of his brain shortly before the artist's long battle with cancer ended in February.

Wang listens carefully and puts on his detective hat, combing through medical records, physical exams, lab tests, and imaging scans for clues.

To begin with, the motor neurons that normally become active with speech are not in precisely the same place from patient to patient and have to be located with a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan before the electrode is implanted.

Preschoolers aged 4 or 5, who have symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, show significant brain structural differences in imaging scans.

The state's athletic commission requires that fighters undergo a brain imaging scan and annual blood tests for viruses like hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.

In a recent study, researchers performed functional magnetic resonance imaging scans on women who unwittingly sniffed newborn infants.

Today's animal care providers have access to high - quality computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans, plus echo cardiology and digital dental x-rays.

The researchers then analyzed various characteristics of the imaging scans from 208 people in a subgroup: 107 of the people with successful ablations compared to 101 of those with failed ablations.

The scan is usually performed in two phases involving a stress myocardial perfusion imaging scan and a rest myocardial perfusion imaging scan.

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.

In 2015, the United States effectively ended biomedical research on chimps, including magnetic resonance imaging scans, but Hopkins says that such scans could be useful for the aging population of animals retired from research facilities.

Loyola University Medical Center is offering epileptic patients an imaging scan that records brain activity during seizures.