Sentences with phrase «imaging scans using»

These imaging scans use radioactive materials called radiopharmaceuticals or radiotracers.

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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.

But last summer, University of Kentucky professor Brent Seales used digital imaging software he developed to analyze the x-rays from a computer tomography scan of the scroll.

Newer imaging methods such as CTscan and MRI scans are of no concern, even if contrast is used.

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 care.

The researchers scanned the participants» brains using magnetic resonance imaging to see if there were any differences in brain structure.

The team who made the discovery say masers could be used in a range of applications such as medical imaging and airport security scanning.

The researchers used an ultrastable, variable - temperature stage in an aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscope to subject an array of size - selected gold nanoparticles (or clusters) to temperatures as high as 500 °C while imaging them with atomic resolution.

RAD - AID, Project Hope and Philips Healthcare team up to assess the ability of communities in western China and northern India to use CT scans, MRIs and other imaging equipment to improve health care

Researchers have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that measure blood flow in the brain to better understand why people often become aggressive and violent after drinking alcohol.

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.

Currently, doctors use a variety of imaging techniques and tests to diagnose and monitor prostate cancer including PSA blood tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), and computerized tomography (CT) scans.

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.

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.

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

The brain's precise speech center varies from person to person, so to find Ramsey's target area — the place where an implant could discern the appropriate speech signals — Kennedy used a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan.

This image was captured using diffusion - weighted imaging, a specialized type of MRI scan.

«Right now, we use MRIs and PET scans to visualize theseprocesses, but other imaging approaches are needed — and that's where the AlloSphere comes in.

These comprised not only «conventional» behavioral studies, but also the physical effects on the brains of test participants by measuring the Blood Oxygen Level - dependent (BOLD) response using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans.

The fNIRS scans indicated that the concussed brain activated at a lower threshold and drew from a wider area — a sharp contrast from earlier functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using concussion patients.

Imaging scans show the brain shifts its activity (measured by blood flow and oxygenation, indicating which neurons are heavily used at a specific time) from the prefrontal executive control regions to subcortical reactive emotion areas.

Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by scanning the brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.

In a 2005 Harvard University functional imaging study of working memory — that short - term memory we use to carry on conversations or remember telephone numbers — a group of volunteers were given verbal attention tasks while inside the scanning machine.

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.

Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) imaging was used to characterize the nanoscale arrangement of the supramolecular lattices formed on graphite and graphene surfaces, which determines the periodicity and geometry of the induced potentials.

The forensic imaging team, working with the Forensic Pathology Unit and the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester, used whole body CT scans and micro-CT imaging of injured bones to analyse trauma to the 500 - year - old skeleton carefully, and to determine which of the King's wounds might have proved fatal.

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.

Then, using magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers scanned the teenagers» brains while they performed verbal tasks, such as reading or naming objects, and nonverbal tasks, such as solving visual puzzles with their hands.

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.

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.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans showed that use of the Nintendo Wii Balance Board system appears to induce favorable changes in brain connections associated with balance and movement.

Seismic tomography is similar to commonly used medical imaging techniques like computed tomography, or CT, scans.

Scientists used techniques such as scanning electron microscopy and x-ray imaging to investigate species» bodies and feeding mechanisms.

This imaging works in a similar way to CT scans that are used in hospitals.

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.

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.

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

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

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

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.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health and at McGill University used magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of 307 children from ages five to 19.

By scanning subjects» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researcher found that, in fact, weighing possible outcomes does influence decision making.

Brain scans In the study, researchers scanned the brains of 39 depressed patients and 37 healthy people using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fRMI).

«In people, the disorder is diagnosed using visualization of the retina within the patient's eye with ophthalmoscopy or imaging with a MRI scan.

Previous studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to show that similar areas of the brain are activated when someone is in pain and when they see another person in pain.

First, Vanduffel's team scanned the two monkeys» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging while they followed a green dot on a computer screen.

Using high - resolution CT scanning and 3D computer imaging, it was possible to reconstruct and visualise the brain and inner ear of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki — a small, plant - eating dinosaur, which lived 150 million years ago, in what is now Tanzania.

Using a variety of techniques, including Synchrotron Rapid Scanning X-ray Fluorescence — a chemical imaging method developed at Stanford University that permits the detection of low levels of elements across large surfaces — the team was able to visualize the remains of pigments in several fossil birds, including the 150 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx and the 125 - million - year - old Confuciusornis.