Sentences with phrase «imaging technique called»

The researchers then added virus capsids to the receptor - membranes and observed the resulting changes to the capsid shell using an imaging technique called cryo - electron microscopy.

In this proof of concept study, Dr Stephen Jolles and colleagues from the University Hospital of Wales used an imaging technique called FDG PET - CT to simultaneously assess anatomical structure and metabolic activity in a patient with GLILD.

Because electron microscopy requires objects to be dried and flattened, the researchers used a fluorescence - based imaging technique called â $ œDNA PAINTâ $ to visualize the jungle - gym - like structures in solution.

Using a new high - speed imaging technique called SCAPE to track activity in the entire fly brain, we will identify activity patterns that generate appetite and trigger food seeking behavior.

They are working on the use of an established medical imaging technique called optical coherence microscopy (OCM)-- most commonly used in ophthalmology — to analyze breast tissue to produce computer - aided diagnoses.

An imaging technique called diffusion MRI measures the diffusion of water and has been a standard imaging technique in the brain and an emerging technique in the prostate.

The heart of Neurofocus's technology is a brain - imaging technique called high - definition electroencephalography.

By making the switch, all molecules made from fatty acids can be observed inside living cells by an advanced imaging technique called stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy.

Scientists have long used an imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET) to visualize ß - amyloid deposits marked by radioactive chemical tags in the brains of people with AD.

The scientists used a high - resolution imaging technique called x-ray crystallography and found that MR191 neutralizes the virus by mimicking the host receptor and plugging into a spot on the viral surface called the receptor binding site.

To view which brain regions were activated in these individuals, an advanced brain imaging technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used.

Using an advanced imaging technique called intravital microscopy, the researchers followed the movement and interaction of HIV - infected cells in the spleen of mice.

The researchers used a brain imaging technique called positron emission tomography to measure an index of the capacity for dopamine production in 30 men who were nicotine - dependent smokers and 15 nonsmokers.

But first author Dr. Sang - Young Kim and colleagues applied a new method of the brain imaging technique called MR spectroscopy to suppress the interfering signal and reveal the hidden glycine signal.

SAY FREEZE Scientists used an imaging technique called cryo - electron microscopy to snap the first close - ups of lithium dendrites, revealing them as long, needlelike crystals.

Langlotz and colleagues used a computer - imaging technique called foreground - background segmentation to identify the required foreground object — usually a person.

The method they have developed uses an electromagnetic imaging technique called magnetotellurics to estimate the electrical conductivity beneath Earth's surface.

He and a postdoctoral student, Xing Tian, decided to take advantage of a powerful imaging technique called magnetoencephalography, or MEG, to do their reconnaissance work.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

We will developed a novel imaging techniques called multi-functional optical coherence tomography (mf - OCT) that is capable of quantifying nanoscale structures of neural fiber layers and ganglion cells, and the oxygen consumption of the retina, to detect the two early manifestations of glaucoma.

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And then we also were going to do neuroimaging where, in particular, we're using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, which looks at blood flow in the brain and therefore tells us what regions of the brain are involved in a task.

To learn more, Dr. Masselli and colleagues used an MRI technique called diffusion - weighted imaging (DWI) to examine pregnant women who had been referred for suspected fetal or placental abnormality.

Now, using a high - resolution eclipse - imaging technique, a team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic has linked the strange patterns to plasma eruptions on the sun's surface, called solar prominences.

He uses a technique called diffusion spectrum imaging, which traces neural connections by following water molecules as they diffuse along axons.

The very high - tech stuff we rely on includes functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic encephalography, and some very, very sophisticated electroencephalography — one of the techniques used to test so - called guilty knowledge.

Called cryo - electron microscopy, the imaging technique freezes biological molecules in place and reveals their inner workings.

They also used a technique called diffusion - weighted imaging to trace the connections between the VWFA and other parts of the brain.

The researchers use a technique called «optical metabolic imaging» to measure the activity level of the organoids.

To image the neurons firing, the researchers used a technique called calcium imaging that creates fluorescence in response to the influx of calcium that occurs when a neuron fires.

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.

Using a microscopic imaging approach, called cryo - imaging, and MRI, the researchers verified that the MRI technique could detect micrometastases, even observing bone micrometastases that were less than 0.5 mm — the diameter of a very fine pencil lead.

The maps, detailed in a recent issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, marks the first successful demonstration of an elusive Earth - imaging technique, called ambient noise body wave tomography.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging — a technique that monitors brain activity in real time — the Johns Hopkins group found reversing a decision requires ultrafast communication between two specific zones within the prefrontal cortex and another nearby structure called the frontal eye field, an area involved in controlling eye movements and visual awareness.

This imaging technique allows researchers to measure the uniformity of water movement (called fractional anisotropy, or FA) throughout the brain.

Drawing on ADNI data, which helped link Alzheimer's disease to a common gene called CLU, researchers used this imaging technique in other people to discover that the brain wiring of gene carriers is impaired decades before the disease typically strikes.

Through the development of a technique called photoacoustic tomography, Wang was able to conquer this limit and advance the imaging depth by nearly two orders of magnitude, from one millimeter to several centimeters, an improvement that could enable doctors to acquire high - resolution images through a patient's skin using light.

Using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging, which can spot neural connections, the researchers saw what appeared to be massive tracts of new axon growth.

Social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt and her colleagues at Stanford University studied the phenomenon in nine black and 10 white subjects using a technique called magnetic resonance imaging.

Another popular technique for 3D cell imaging called spinning disc confocal microscopy can't image samples nearly as long as Betzig's technique, but it is still better for imaging thick cells and tissue.

«We used a technique called «lucky imaging», whereby individual sharp frames are extracted from short movies of Jupiter to «freeze» the turbulent motions of our own atmosphere, to create a stunning new image of Jupiter's cloud layers,» explained Dr Fletcher.

Yet by connecting a single - pixel camera to a patterned light source, a team of physicists in China has made detailed x-ray images using a statistical technique called ghost imaging, first pioneered 20 years ago in infrared and visible light.

They employed an advanced microscopic technique called in vivo two - photon imaging that allows the analysis of structures as small as a thousandth of a millimetre in the living brain.

The authors also employed other advanced imaging techniques — including electron microscopy and super-resolution imaging — to discover that the formation, and subsequent loosening, of these contacts is regulated by a lysosomal protein called RAB7.

Immune cells called microglia activate as part of the body's inflammatory response, so the researchers used a brain imaging technique to measure a substance that increases in activated microglia.

A new study using different brain imaging techniques linked the intensity of an individual's placebo effect to the amount of dopamine (a neurotransmitter involved in the pleasure and reward pathway) released in a midbrain region called the nucleus accumbens.

The team used a novel magnetic resonance imaging technique, called apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, which directly assessed the movements and dynamics of the water in the intervertebral disk and other spinal structures.

But using a technique called calcium imaging, Aoki et al. were able to visualize for the first time the activity of the whole zebrafish brain during memory retrieval.

This process, called seismic tomography, works in a manner similar to imaging techniques employed in medicine, where 2 - D x-ray images taken from many perspectives are combined to create 3 - D images of areas inside the body.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

To do this, the team obtained extremely high spatial resolution observations from the eight - meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai`i using a technique called speckle imaging, as well as adaptive optics (AO) observations from the ten - meter Keck II telescope, Gemini's neighbor on Mauna Kea.