Sentences with phrase «imaging scan before»

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.

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.

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Helped by the recent development of fiber - optic - bundle - coupled laser - scanning confocal fluorescence imaging (Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy — CLE), which allowed the scientists to image blood flow more deeply in the brain than ever before.

The simplicity and low cost of a smell test — $ 26.95 retail, before additional doctor or hospital charges — make it especially appealing in neurology, a field dominated by positron - emission tomography scans, dopamine transporter single - photon emission computed tomography imaging and other expensive technologies.

For example, just before von Eschenbach arrived, NCI had agreed to fund a now - $ 350 million screening trial to see if spiral computed tomography (CT) scans could detect lung tumors missed by x-ray imaging in former smokers.

The imaging software — developed and currently in use only at Cincinnati Children's — mathematically determines the lowest possible radiation dose for the patient before a scan is performed, according to the study led by David Larson, MD, radiology quality and safety director at the medical center and principal architect of the technology.

Before the operation you have a brain scan using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Imaging scans show decreases in brain connectivity before (orange) and after (blue) treatment with ECT.

Both functional and structural scans were conducted in a single session at the brain imaging unit of McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute, the hot afternoon before a Police concert.

«Even before the patient completes all of the MRIs, CT scans and other imaging procedures following diagnosis, we can have a recommendation for which drug and dosage to prescribe,» said Kareem Azab, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center member who leads the research.

In a study led by psychiatrist Ian Reid of Aberdeen, Schwarzbauer and colleagues performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of nine depressed patients before and after ECT.

When they compared magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans taken before and after for both groups, they found that auditory and motor areas of the brain linked respectively with hearing and dexterity grew larger only in the trainee musicians.

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.

The company is producing advanced technologies to detect cancer before a tumor can cause symptoms or be picked up by an imaging scan.

The increase in body fat and the distribution of fat in the body was measured using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI scans) before and after the weight gain, as was the muscle mass in the body.

Before and after the four - week study, participants» underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, both while in a state of rest, and in response to an «emotion - recognition task.»

«Both before and after meditation training, study participants» brain activity was examined using a special type of imaging - arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL MRI)- that captures longer duration brain processes, such as meditation, better than a standard MRI scan of brain function.

A functional imaging alternative has also been used in courts before, with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.

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How many times did the injured worker return to the initial occupational physician with serious symptoms before that physician prescribed important imaging studies like a MRI or CT scan?