Sentences with phrase «imaging technique opens»

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Using sophisticated computer - driven imaging techniques like PET (positive emission tomography) and the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers opened up new details about the operation of the brain.

Dyer, who recently joined the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, also studies how the brain computes via its signaling networks, and this imaging technique could someday open new windows onto how they work.

A proof - of - concept study authored by the Spectrum Health experts also opens the way for these techniques to be used in combination with a third tool — magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

«Our findings for this study provide important starting points for using small molecule imaging techniques to explore MAO - B further at the organism level, and in fact, opens up future prospects for non-invasive imaging - based diagnostic applications,» said Dr Li Lin, the first author of the paper and a post-doctoral fellow in Prof Yao's lab.

Typically, an individual experiencing a heart attack is rushed to the hospital where doctors use imaging techniques such as angiography to determine the site of the blood clot, prep the patient, and then perform an artery - opening interventional cardiac catheterization, also known as balloon angioplasty and stenting.

An explosion of detections using the last two techniques (imaging and astrometry) is expected in the next few years opening up a new region of the parameter space for exploration.

In recent years, researchers have developed high - resolution imaging techniques based on laser - cooled trapped ions that have opened up the possibility of making ion - based sensors that could resolve an external force in three directions using a single atomic ion.

These samples do not necessarily require optical sectioning, but open the door to a number of other techniques that can improve contrast and resolution due to the lack of a requirement for high temporal imaging speeds.

Featuring lectures by speakers from the University of Minnesota, UNC, Duke, NCSU and Wake Forest University, the symposium is open to the entire scientific community and a broad spectrum of topics will be covered including the Brain Connectome project, the effect of music on brain function, novel MR and OCT imaging techniques for the lungs, and advanced ultrasound methodologies for tissue characterization.

In this magazine we explore how scientists and doctors use imaging and other techniques to understand what is going on inside the brain without having to open the skull.

Test for urinary tract patency (an open passage), kidney ultrasound, x-rays of urinary system, including kidneys, ureters and bladder, x-rays repeated with contrast media (= intravenous pyelogram or IVP), other imaging techniques

London, UK About Blog BMC Medical Imaging is an open access journal publishing original peer - reviewed research articles in the development, evaluation, and use of imaging techniques and image processing tools to diagnose and manage dImaging is an open access journal publishing original peer - reviewed research articles in the development, evaluation, and use of imaging techniques and image processing tools to diagnose and manage dimaging techniques and image processing tools to diagnose and manage disease.