Sentences with phrase «imaging scans for»

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

«Limit imaging scans for headache?

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Around the same time as his graduation from engineering at the University of British Columbia, he sold the company — a system that uses high - speed imaging to scan for defects in packaging — he'd founded as a student.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth caFor the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth cafor patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

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

As well as medical imaging and airport security scanning, masers could play a pivotal role in improving sensors to remotely detect bombs, new technology for quantum computers, and might even improve space communication methods to potentially find life on other planets.

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.

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.

And even if the patient doesn't meet the conditions that guidelines say can benefit most from brain imaging — for instance, someone with an abnormal neurological exam or a known cancer — doctors might order a scan at a patient's request to protect themselves legally.

For many patients, even the shortened imaging time is too long and they tend to move during the scan.

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.

Currently there is no tool seen as a gold standard for diagnosing concussions, and imaging tests like CT - scans and MRIs are ineffective in the absence of structural damage to the brain.

The possibility to shorten the imaging time makes the scan easier for the patient and makes it possible to scan a larger number of patients during one day.

Even the imaging tests that doctors use to make the case for back surgery, including MRI, X-rays, and CT scans, are not very good at pinpointing the cause of pain, comments Jerome Groopman, chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and author of How Doctors Think.

Novel 3D vascular ultrasound imaging technology allowed researchers to quantify the amount of carotid artery plaque burden lining each patient's carotid arteries in their neck, while a coronary artery calcium score CT scan allowed for the identification of any narrowing or hardening of the coronary arteries due to the buildup of fatty cholesterol and calcified plaque.

EM: Imaging such as MRIs or CT scans, which reveal the mass and volume of the tumor, can fool you sometimes: The patient gets a scan, goes on a therapy, and when they return in a month for a second imaging, the structure and size of the tumor haven't cImaging such as MRIs or CT scans, which reveal the mass and volume of the tumor, can fool you sometimes: The patient gets a scan, goes on a therapy, and when they return in a month for a second imaging, the structure and size of the tumor haven't cimaging, the structure and size of the tumor haven't changed.

Starting in 2010, Baraniuk and his colleagues at Georgetown's Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging put Kroot and 30 other sick veterans (plus 20 healthy subjects) through physical and cognitive tests and scanned their brains.

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.

Satellite imaging firm Digital Globe has divided up high - resolution images of the region of interest so that web users can scan them for signs of the plane.

Compared with other imaging techniques, PET scans are relatively cheap and easy to perform, and are routinely used to survey for cancer, heart problems, and other diseases.

Intra-ventricular flow imaging is currently done with MRI scans, which is expensive and not suitable for patients with implanted devices such as pacemakers.

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.

Further, trials for new drugs targeting at - risk patients can be ramped up significantly if a simple, non-invasive blood test can replace costly imaging like PET scan.

In the scans at age 8, the researchers precisely defined the VWFA for each child by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity as the children read.

«Unfortunately, healthcare providers including physicians, radiologists, and medical imaging technologists are often not aware of radiation doses for common CT scans,» concluded Dr. Leswick.

The technique, magnetic resonance imaging, is more usually used for examinations such as brain scans to detect tumours.

One mission of the Facility is to establish user - friendly workflows ranging from sample preparation to image acquisition, image processing, and long - term data storage, especially for imaging modalities generating very big datasets or files, such as slide - scanning, high - content screening, and 3 - D scanning electron microscopy.

«Our ultimate goal is to develop an endoscopic photoacoustic imaging probe scanning the cervical canal, which would be a quicker, cheaper and non-invasive method for the diagnosis of cervical cancer,» Xiao said.

For this clinical pilot study, researchers imaged subjects undergoing routine molecular imaging procedures such as bone scans or imaging of the thyroid, eye or lymphatic system.

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study — or ABCD Study — is a $ 300 million effort funded by the National Institutes of Health that will scan the brains of some 10,000 U.S. youths, beginning when they are 9 and 10 years old and imaging them every 2 years for 10 years.

The incidence of kidney cancer in the United States has been increasing for two decades, with the trend partly attributed to the introduction of abdominal imaging studies such as CT scans or MRIs in the 1980's.

In perfusion imaging, a standard dye is injected and scanned for a few minutes as it passes through the brain.

«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.

These properties allow us to record the entire unsaturated diffraction pattern in scanning mode, and simultaneously capture bright field, dark field, and phase contrast information, as well as analyze the full scattering distribution, opening the way for new multichannel imaging modes.

The reactor itself became a globally dominant supplier of radioisotopes — in particular, molybdenum - 99 (Mo - 99), a workhorse of medical imaging employed for millions of scans every year.

MRI is ideal for medical imaging because it's milder than techniques like CT scans or X-rays since it's not as invasive and does not rely on ionizing radiation.

«This is the first real demonstration of the practical potential of metamaterials for MRI imaging enhancement and scanning time reduction.

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.

Varadan said these low - resolution images can substitute for conventional neuro - imaging technology, such as MRI and computerized tomography (CT scan).

Imaging results often provided critical information, such as when physicians changed the management plan for a patient with a substance - abuse - related lumbar spine infection after CT scans showed the involved nerves.

Off the coast of west Africa, perched on the highest point of the Canary Islands, a gamma - ray telescope called MAGIC — the name stands for the Major Atmospheric Gamma - ray Imaging Cherenkov telescope — scans the heavens for bursts of high - energy photons from far corners of the universe.

Iodine 123 and copper 64 are used for medical imaging such as in PET scans.

A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long - standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.

To avoid the noise of the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, the scientists played the sounds between scans to allow for an undisturbed tone.

For the study, researchers conducted brain scans on 37 healthy smokers (those who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day) ages 19 to 61 using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in two different sessions: 24 hours after biochemically confirmed abstinence and after smoking as usual.

Participants are recruited from retirement communities and subsidized housing facilities in and around Chicago to participate in annual clinical evaluations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and to donate their brains and other parts of their bodies for research after their deaths.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

For their research, Godfried and Ayesha Rahman, MD, a fifth - year resident in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Langone, reviewed peer - reviewed literature on different options in imaging technology that may be used in pediatric orthopaedic injuries, including X-rays and CT scans of the spine, pelvis, hip, knees, shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist, and foot and ankle.

One unit used bedside ultrasound as the standard of care for diagnosis; the second used conventional imaging, such as x-rays and CT scans, as its standard of care in diagnosis.