Sentences with phrase «laser scans of»

From laser scans of Tutankhamun's tomb — taken to create an exact replica of it — Reeves believes he has identified two walled - over doors that lead to the resting place of Nefertiti, who some archeologists believe to have been King Tut's mother.
Using 3D laser scans of growing plants, Salk scientists found that the same universal design principles that humans use to engineer networks like subways also guide the shapes of plant branching architectures.
Laser scanning of the tooth revealed that barium levels started off high right after birth and continued to be elevated for 7 months, apparently due to exclusive breastfeeding; they then fell to intermediate levels for another 7 months, suggesting that the mother's milk was supplemented by other food sources.
The new work, published in Current Biology on July 6, 2017, and based on data from 3D laser scanning of plants, suggests there may be universal rules of logic governing branching growth across many biological systems.

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The feature uses components, including lasers and sensors, on the front of the iPhone X to create a 3D scan of a person's face.
The Department of Homeland Security, ever the least controversial branch of the US Government, is developing a new laser - based scanner that can scan targets at a molecular level to read what they had for breakfast, how much adrenaline is pumping through their body and whether you they have any trace amounts of drugs or gunpowder on them.
At 1:30 p.m., Sen. David Carlucci will tour the Center for Dementia Research at the Nathan Kline Institute for a demonstration of the Zeiss LSM 880 Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope and Leica LMD7000 — Laser Capture Microdissection System.
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Patrick Reuter at Inria Bordeaux — Sud - Ouest Research Centre, France, created computer models of artefacts by scanning them with lasers.
The technique developed by collaborator Tom Kaye of the Foundation for Scientific Advancement, scans the fossils with a violet laser in a dark room.
For this purpose, a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) is used, which scans its surroundings with a laser beam within a radius of several hundred metres.
«The laser scanning data collected from selected points does give significantly more precise results than the satellite radar,» notes Christian Berger, co-author of the study and head of the research project on which Victor Odipo's doctoral thesis is based.
In an area of some nine square kilometres for which radar satellite data is available, they collected laser scanning data from more than 40 plots, and integrated this data into a model for calculating the biomass.
The lidar - based tools developed in the study have the potential to assist in these tasks, since the laser scans are obtained throughout entire forest areas, providing high - resolution maps of changes within small forest areas.
In this method, forests are scanned with a laser on board a plane, penetrating the canopy and providing valuable information of their entire vertical profile.
Once DAVID's manual scan is complete, the software uses the calibration marks and the reflected laser light to calculate the three - dimensional coordinates of the object, and voila — you have yourself a quick and dirty 3 - D model.
These images of mouse brains compare laser scanning photostimulation maps of all the neurons connected to one central neuron in control mice (left) vs. mice dosed with valproic acid (VPA) to induce autism - like symptoms (right).
The researchers used a technique called laser scanning photostimulation to map the connections between individual subplate neuron cells in the brains of the mouse pups.
This image was created using a laser scanning confocal microscope by Igor Siwanowicz of Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The instrument — a scanning Kerr microscope — bounced femtosecond pulses of laser light off the surface of rectangular Ni80Fe20 samples, measuring 15 nanometers thick and grown on small strips of gold.
Andrew Gilbert of Ingenia Technology, a London - based firm that provides conventional laser scanning authentication, says such a small mark may be hard for users to scan each time.
But in summer 2009, archaeologist Jon Henderson from the University of Nottingham, UK, working with Elias Spondylis of the Greek government's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, carried out a detailed digital survey using laser - based positioning and state - of - the - art sonar scanning.
Using the latest laser scanning technology, they have revealed that The Bosham Head, as it is known, is from a Roman statue of Emperor Trajan, dating back to AD 122, and one of the most significant Roman finds in Britain.
However, «the CT scan didn't show the outline of the nervous systems unambiguously enough,» Strausfeld said, «while a scanning laser technique mapping the distribution of chemical elements showed iron deposits outlining the nervous system almost as convincingly but with minor differences.»
First, it scans the room with laser light to match the particular bathroom it has entered with a set of maps stored in its computer.
Dr Russell and Harry Manley, from the School of Applied Sciences at BU, were able to use 3D laser scans to pick out facial features and a distinctive hairstyle, which led them to conclude that the statue was of Emperor Trajan.
On three separate occasions during the 42 - month period, the scientists used a laser - emitting device to scan the slab from a spot 30 meters away, thus gaining an independent measurement of its motions during an 18 - hour period.
For the new data, the group used laser surface scanning to produce 3D models of the hyoids.
But in 2015, high - resolution laser scans suggested that additional chambers lay behind the walls of the pharaoh's burial chamber.
The device was created directly from a CT scan of Garrett's trachea and bronchi, integrating an image - based computer model with laser - based 3D printing to produce the splint.
Meanwhile, the impact on soil structure depends on how widely distributed and deep the roots are.The new method, which combines laser scanning and 3D modelling, makes it possible to quickly produce an accurate image of the structure of stumps and roots.
Using sophisticated three - dimensional laser scanning and digital photograph analyses, sections of the rocks revealed burrows or trails left behind by trilobites and their prey — often worm - like creatures — in ocean sediments.
Remote detection of buried landmines is a possible application of system to remotely detect buried landmines using a bacterial sensor and a laser - based scanning system.
Using the aerial laser scanning technology lidar, she and her team precisely measured distances between the surface of the ground and a reference point in the air, revealing detailed outlines of areas where human activity had most likely disrupted the soil.
By scanning a document with laser beams, the team can generate a hologram of the pen strokes within a signature.
Liquid has no line of sight; it can penetrate cavities and hidden parts, and it treats transparent and glossy materials identically to opaque materials, thus bypassing the visibility and optical limitations of optical and laser - based scanning devices.
The sheet of light scans the body of the cell in two different laser colors in about one second, during which time about 200 images are taken.
The team demonstrated that reducing the laser scan vector length instead of using a continuous laser scan regulates temperature changes during processing to reduce residual stress.
The size of these atmospheric waves makes them easy to observe with radar and Lidar, a radar - like system using laser light to scan the atmosphere.
It represents years of collaborative efforts from a large team of international scientists, with a substantial contribution from undergraduate student researchers in the 3 - D laser surface scanning 3 - D of the Thirioux skeletons.
«As this site is so unusual, we made the decision to carry out a laser - scan of the rock shelter and the surrounding landscape, plus a white - light scan of the actual paintings.
Our anatomical atlas of the Thirioux skeletons, produced using modern techniques such as 3D laser surface scanning, opens a new window into the life of this famous extinct bird.
Schwartz engineers modified the helicopter transmitter so that the laser beam scans a plane perpendicular to the direction of travel.
The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.
Now, using a powerful laser scanning microscope, George Brooks, an exercise metabolism expert at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues demonstrate that lactic acid is present in rat muscle cells regardless of oxygen content.
By using lasers to scan the craters — and comparing the indentations with those created today — astrobiologist Sanjoy Som of the NASA Ames Research Center and his colleagues have derived a measurement of the pressure exerted by the early atmosphere.
Z - stack images of taste buds and geniculate ganglia were collected on an Olympus Fluoview FV300 laser scanning confocal microscope with a 60 × oil - immersion objective [numerical aperture (NA) 1.3] and 20 × oil - immersion objective (NA 0.7) or on a Leica TCS SP5 laser scanning confocal microscope with a 63 × oil - immersion objective (NA 1.4).
«Nonlinear stage - scanning confocal microscopy is critical because it allows us to rapidly measure the nonlinear emission from thousands of different nanostructures while minimizing the potential systematic errors, such as intensity or beam pointing variations, often associated with tuning the wavelength of an ultrafast laser,» O'Brien says.
Assessment of human pancreatic islet architecture and composition by laser scanning confocal microscopy
Standard DVD drives can now be used as a laser scanning microscope for low - cost diagnostics of biomolecules.
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