Sentences with phrase «in magnetic resonance»

The helmet generates brief magnetic fields, at a similar amplitude to that used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems.
Gadolinium is a metal found in contrast agents (dyes) used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, including a form of MRI called magnetic resonance angiography (MRA).
2012 Spriet M, Cissell DD: The magic angle effect in magnetic resonance imaging of the horse: a review, R Hagen, S Martig, ME Raw, A Zwingenberger, (ed), EAVDI Yearbook 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
None of the participants described themselves as being anxious in the magnetic resonance scanner (Magnet - Resonance - Fear Survey Schedule, [26]-RRB- and none of the participants experienced anxiety during the scanning procedure (State - Trait - Anxiety - Inventory, STAI - X1, [27]-RRB-.
A quarter of a century later, Sir Peter Mansfield of the United Kingdom was given the same award in 2003 for advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that led to scans taking seconds rather than hours.
This kind of device is used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment, which has become commonplace.
Gadolinium is used as a contrast agent to improve the visibility of internal organs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
2010 - 2013: Director of the Center for Nanotechnology Innovation, IIT@NEST, Pisa, Italy 2001 - 2010: Director of the Department of Neuroimaging, Glaxo Smith - Kline Research Center, Verona, Italy 1996 - 2001: Lecturer in Magnetic Resonance, Instiute of Cancer Research, University of London, UK.
Combined with the high public awareness of the importance of screening, advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology and the availability of preventive drugs targeting estrogen receptors, I believe this test will help to save lives,» said Dr. Kari Stefansson, M.D., Dr. Med., CEO of deCODE.
Exposure to the nerve gas agents sarin and cyclosarin has been linked in several studies to changes in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that are associated with cognitive impairments in Gulf War veterans.
To achieve this, Omura was joined by an international team led by Amos Smith of the University of Pennsylvania, an expert in magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which can determine a molecule's structure by analysing the behaviour of its constituent atoms in a powerful magnetic field.
And because the nitrogen's electrons are extremely sensitive to magnetic fields, diamond crystals have also shown promise in magnetic resonance imaging.
«This is the first non-metallic, biodegradable, natural MRI contrast agent tested in humans,» explained Guoying Liu, Ph.D., Director of the NIBIB Program in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy.
In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), contrast agents are used to enhance the imaging of tissue structures.
Frigid liquid helium keeps the superconducting magnets in magnetic resonance imaging machines running.
These defects «pin» in place, or trap, the microscopic magnetic vortices that form when the superconductor is placed in a strong magnetic field, such as those generated by magnets in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.
«A critical aim of the President's BRAIN Initiative is to move neuroscience into a new realm where we can identify and track functioning neural networks non-invasively,» explains Guoying Liu, Ph.D., Director of the NIBIB program in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
The team plans to conduct various experiments in magnetic resonance to verify the analytical invention.
They are used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, magnetic levitation trains and particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider.
The UB researchers are conducting a longitudinal, five - year study of these patients focused on the relationship between cerebral microbleeds, advances in magnetic resonance imaging and clinical outcomes.
In 1993, Dr. Wind joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a U.S. Dept. of Energy laboratory in Richland, Washington, as a staff scientist and is currently working there, specializing in magnetic resonance.
Its possible utilization in higher - accuracy chemical analysis, as well as in magnetic resonance imaging — MRI — technology, are also of interest.
Mitragotri reckons that the particles could provide a way to get drugs into the body at a more constant concentration, or substances such as iron oxide nanoparticles, which increase contrast in magnetic resonance imaging.

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Xiaosi Gua and Shihui Hana induced increased activation in the ACC / paracingulate and the right middle frontal gyrus by having subjects look at painful images in VR.
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.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure changes in blood flow, she found that as people received more information, their brain activity increased in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a region behind the forehead that is responsible for making decisions and controlling emotions.
In the March 2009 article entitled «Expert Financial Advice Neurobiologically «Offloads» Financial Decision - Making under Risk», Jan Engelmann, Monica Capra, Charles Noussair and Gregory Berns investigate the neurobiological basis of the influence of expert advice on financial decisions via functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging monitoring of individuals choosing between a certain payment and a lottery, with and without expert advice.
T2MR is a miniaturized, magnetic resonance - based approach that measures how water molecules react in the presence of magnetic fields.
The brain activity for these two tasks is sufficiently differentfor the researchers to be able easily to distinguish the responses in the functional - magnetic - resonance (fMRI) images of the patients» brains.
The turquoise kidneys and the blue - green hearts form a kind of magnetic resonance image of Los Angeles: a many - chambered nautilus of pools in the prosperous precincts of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, while in South Central L.A. — where municipal pools must often close for lack of funds — the organs appear blackened and necrotic.
New technologies, like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), allow us to look inside the brain when it's in the throes of love — or just mere attachment love.
Researchers looked at 133 babies using specialized, «baby - friendly» magnetic resonance imaging to analyze brain growth in a sample of children under the age of 4.
More praise for the yummy stuff resulted from brain researcher Todd Parrish of Northwestern University in 2009, when he examined functional magnetic resonance images of gum chewers and found increased activity in areas of the brain associated with memory and emotional responses.
A study published in Current Biology used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) of the brains of three to seven month old infants to assess brain activity in relationship to sound.
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.
In the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental soundIn the new study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record brain responses in sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental soundin sleeping babies while they were presented with emotionally neutral, positive, or negative human vocalizations or nonvocal environmental sounds.
Currently, no role exists for computed tomography scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasonography in the routine evaluation of patients with reflux disease.
Kristin Gourley, IBCLC, who offers online consultations at Lactation Link, tackles nursing in the days after magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
The first step in testing the model is by using magnetic resonance imaging to look at the neural structures involved when sleeping infants experience an apnea followed by a cortex - induced arousal.
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.
SIGNA ™ Premier is a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system developed through the GE - NFL Head Health Initiative, which aimed to develop new imaging tools, particularly to aid in the detection of biomarkers for the potential diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury.
Such differences have been identified in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of patients with fibromyalgia.25 If severe early breastfeeding - associated pain reflects pain catastrophizing, then aberrations in central nociception pathways may lead to both curtailed breastfeeding and perinatal depression.
Researchers in Sweden and the U.K. landed in the news over the summer, seeming to claim nearly 40,000 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies could be invalid.
Dartmouth had an exceptionally strong group of cognitive neuroscientists and was the first institution in the United States to acquire a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine dedicated to research.
The team analyzes patient - specific data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), x-ray computed tomography (CT), biopsies and other factors, in order to develop their computational model.
The researchers scanned the participants» brains using magnetic resonance imaging to see if there were any differences in brain structure.
A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scientists found that the hippocampus, the brain area responsible for long - term memory, is smaller in people suffering from MS than in healthy adults.
Among its five new scanners, CUBRIC boasts Europe's most powerful microstructural brain scanner, the Siemens 3 Tesla Connectome magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, a specially adapted MRI scanner of which there is only one other in the world, located at Harvard University in the United States.
After productively using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study protein structure during a Ph.D., she switched to structural mass spectrometry for her postdoc in the United Kingdom.
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