Sentences with phrase «in noninvasive imaging»

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Although it may be years in development, Friedmann envisions a noninvasive imaging device akin to an X-ray that detects bits and pieces of leftover viruses used to introduce performance - enhancing genes.

Findings from a first pilot study of the new imaging system — a noninvasive method of measuring blood flow dynamics in response to a single breath hold — were published today in Radiology.

These results demonstrate that noninvasive imaging of EGFR activating mutation status in primary and metastatic tumors with 18F - MPG PET / CT is a valid strategy for stratifying NSCLC patients for EGFR - TKI treatment.

But new molecular imaging, which can be used to complement the biopsy and is noninvasive, can provide added benefit in certain cases, especially when multiple examinations are needed.

Optical imaging methods are rapidly becoming essential tools in biomedical science because they're noninvasive, fast, cost - efficient and pose no health risks since they don't use ionizing radiation.

«By showing that trained subjects have increased activity in the primary motor cortex when performing surgical tasks when compared to untrained subjects, our noninvasive brain imaging approach can accurately determine surgical motor skill transfer from simulation to ex-vivo environments,» Mr. Nemani said.

Although it may be years yet in development, Friedmann envisions a noninvasive imaging device akin to an X-ray that detects bits and pieces of leftover viruses used to introduce performance - enhancing genes.

Although noninvasive imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) can track activity in the brain, they provide limited resolution.

Noninvasive imaging using PET and other technologies reduces the number of animals in a study by permitting the use of animals as their own controls, according to the authors.

The Nature study, titled «Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microbes in mammalian hosts,» was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Packard Fellowship, the Pew Scholarship, the Heritage Medical Research Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

The screening was conducted using Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA), a noninvasive imaging technology that accurately measures calcium deposits and plaque buildup in the arteries.

Their discovery could aid in the synthesis of new «radiotracers» — chemical compounds that contain a radioactive form, or isotope, of an element — for use with a noninvasive, high - resolution 3 - D medical imaging technology known as PET (positron emission tomography) scanning.

With increasing use of noninvasive imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT), ECAC is increasingly recognized in the adult population, especially in association with cigarette smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

«We studied asymptomatic individuals with a low risk of cardiovascular events at baseline and used noninvasive imaging to predict the risk of an event downstream,» said David A. Bluemke, M.D, Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. «This is the first population - based prospective study to determine if vulnerable plaque features by MRI add to the risk of a cardiovascular event beyond the traditional risk factors.»

Noninvasive imaging of carotid artery plaque with MRI can accurately predict future cardiovascular events like strokes and heart attacks in people without a history of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

The labs, led by Sirlin and Ehman, invented and validated the advanced noninvasive imaging techniques applied in this study.

OAK BROOK, Ill. — Noninvasive imaging of carotid artery plaque with MRI can accurately predict future cardiovascular events like strokes and heart attacks in people without a history of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Using noninvasive cardiac magnetic resonance imaging techniques, they were able to confirm the presence of myocardial inflammation in a patient who tested positive for cardiac myosin autoantibodies.

The Animal and Human Imaging Shared Resource enables Cancer Center investigators to execute high throughput, quantitative and noninvasive in vivo imaging studies on animal models, apply and validate MRI, optical, CT, PET, SPECT and ultrasound methods for noninvasive detection and characterization in small animals and incorporate emerging and clinical relevant quantitative MRI and PET protocols into Phase I, II and III clinical trials in a centralized, cost effective Imaging Shared Resource enables Cancer Center investigators to execute high throughput, quantitative and noninvasive in vivo imaging studies on animal models, apply and validate MRI, optical, CT, PET, SPECT and ultrasound methods for noninvasive detection and characterization in small animals and incorporate emerging and clinical relevant quantitative MRI and PET protocols into Phase I, II and III clinical trials in a centralized, cost effective imaging studies on animal models, apply and validate MRI, optical, CT, PET, SPECT and ultrasound methods for noninvasive detection and characterization in small animals and incorporate emerging and clinical relevant quantitative MRI and PET protocols into Phase I, II and III clinical trials in a centralized, cost effective manner.

Magnetic resonance imaging techniques, including structural imaging (MRI), functional imaging (fMRI), and spectroscopy (MRS), which measures brain chemistry, are noninvasive and thus can be used both in humans and in animals to study multiple aspects of brain structure and function.

«Generally one can get reimbursed if there's a suspected pathology,» says Raymond Stainback, MD, the medical director of noninvasive cardiac imaging at the Texas Heart Institute, in Houston.