Sentences with phrase «in imaging scans»

Preschoolers aged 4 or 5, who have symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, show significant brain structural differences in imaging scans.

Not exact matches

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.

Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of 21 undergraduate students all tasked with reading the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris.

«If Sonic acquires the Delta Imaging Group's MRI units, it will remove a significant competitive constraint on Sonic, particularly in relation to the pricing of MRI scans.»

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.

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

In other words, unlike other injuries, concussions are usually injuries no one sees and, contrary to popular belief, don't show up on most magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams or CT scans.

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

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.

Even if a scan shows abnormal activity in a brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.

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

They reviewed CT scans to assess how much abdominal fat had accumulated, its location and it's density in 1,106 participants from the Framingham Heart Study who received this imaging as part of a larger study to measure coronary and abdominal aortic calcification.

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.

She elaborates, «In the study, these patients underwent imaging with a PSMA PET scan and had treatment based on the results of the scan findings.

At the moment the only way to accurately measure amyloid in a living person is either via costly positron emission tomography imaging (PET scan) or by sampling cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap.

Juan Carlos Cuevas at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain and his colleagues modified a scanning tunnelling microscope — which allows the manipulation and imaging of atoms — to trap a ring of benzene between the probing tip of the microscope and a flat gold surface.

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.

The eyes glowed so brightly on those images due to gadolinium, a harmless, transparent chemical often given to patients during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to highlight abnormalities in the brain.

The researchers then analyzed various characteristics of the imaging scans from 208 people in a subgroup: 107 of the people with successful ablations compared to 101 of those with failed ablations.

The scan is usually performed in two phases involving a stress myocardial perfusion imaging scan and a rest myocardial perfusion imaging scan.

Chemically intolerant individuals also show dysfunction in brain imaging on a SPECT scan, which tracks blood flow through tissue.

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.

Smith says her group is investigating whether PET imaging of serotonin could be a marker to detect progression of disease, whether alone or in conjunction with scans that detect the clumping protein known as amyloid that accumulates in the brains of those with Alzheimer's disease.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, the researchers scanned participants» brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging, paying close attention to activity in several areas of the brain.

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 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.

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.

The scans — done with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI — show which sections of the five brains became more active during the ads, thereby revealing what's really going on in people's heads.

«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.

Imaging studies that combine scans from many people, such as this diffusion image from the Human Connectome Project, don't identify brain variations in individuals.

Researchers led by heart imaging specialist Venkatesh Murthy, M.D., Ph.D. looked at data from two million Medicare participants who needed heart scans in the four years surrounding a six - month technetium shortage in 2010.

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.

«In many parts of the world microwave measurements systems can become a complement to CT scans and other imaging systems, which are often missing or have long waiting lists.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this study, 50 patients and six healthy volunteers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialistIn this study, 50 patients and six healthy volunteers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialistin Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialists.

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 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.

The first - of - its - kind imaging software reduced overall radiation exposure from CT scans by 37 percent, according to two new studies published online today in the journal Radiology.