Sentences with phrase «magnetic resonance technique»

So the team then used another magnetic resonance technique which showed them which isomers were produced by the fungus (Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 116, p 12097).

Kurt Wüthrich of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology receives the other half for developing nuclear magnetic resonance techniques that can reveal the precise shape of the highly convoluted molecular beasts.

Some magnetic resonance techniques can give information about the quantity and function of beta cells, he says, but they use a dose of manganese chloride that is at least 1 million times higher than the new PET technique, suggesting an advantage in lower toxicity.

Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry is devoted to the rapid publication of papers which are concerned with the development of magnetic resonance techniques, or in which the application of such techniques plays a pivotal part.

Magnetic resonance techniques enables a wide range of novel applications in chemistry, physics and biomedical sciences, such as powerful imaging tools which have revolutionized medicine.

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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.

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.

The EEG signal can be processed quickly, allowing fast response times, and the instrument is cheaper and more portable than brain - scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron - emission tomography.

Du and colleagues at McLean Hospital measured oxidative stress using a novel magnetic resonance spectroscopy technique.

«David's technique could be as important to medicine as MRI [magnetic resonance imaging].»

There are also experimental techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which allow us to understand which parts of the brain are most active when we are involved in different cognitive activities.

Although students at this level learn the basics of techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy in school, «they don't have the advantage of using instruments,» Hewson points out.

Two other commonly used imaging techniques — magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound — often supplement mammography to detect breast cancer but are not yet reliable enough to be used by themselves for screening.

Progress has recently been made in implementing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can be used to obtain images in a fraction of a second rather than in minutes.

Currently, doctors use a variety of imaging techniques and tests to diagnose and monitor prostate cancer including PSA blood tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), and computerized tomography (CT) scans.

Dubbed magnetic resonance elastography, the technique was first developed more than a decade ago by Richard Ehman, a radiologist at the Mayo Clinic.

Arguably the most convenient and least invasive way of doing that is through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI — a technique that measures changes in blood flow and blood oxygen levels in the brain, thereby showing which parts of the brain are activated when people perform various tasks.

Currently, there are several in vivo imaging techniques, e.g., magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic particle imaging (MPI).

Over three days, Muzik and Diwadkar studied Hof's brain and body functions using two distinct imaging techniques — including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study his brain and positron emission tomography (PET) to study his body.

Using a second imaging technique, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), they additionally showed that a further metabolite is involved in the experience of social pain: aspartate.

The children, with the consent of their parents or legal guardians, also underwent a structural magnetic resonance, a totally innocuous technique that allowed researchers to explore in great detail the cerebral anatomy.

The very high - tech stuff we rely on includes functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic encephalography, and some very, very sophisticated electroencephalography — one of the techniques used to test so - called guilty knowledge.

Using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the researchers measured the concentrations of 21 metabolites key to nerve function in the brains of 10 deceased schizophrenia patients and 12 normal human controls.

To view which brain regions were activated in these individuals, an advanced brain imaging technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used.

Health: Combined Optical and Magnetic Resonance Microscope - «Studying cells in real time» Dr. Robert Wind, Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA helped develop a combined microscope that can study live cells at the same time with two completely different microscopic techniques.

In preparation for a future career in industry, Powers has incorporated many techniques, such as nuclear magnetic resonance and calorimetry, which he considers relevant in drug design.

The technique, magnetic resonance imaging, is more usually used for examinations such as brain scans to detect tumours.

When Cegelski and her colleagues used a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to analyze the biofilm around samples of E. coli, the researchers got a surprise.

By using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique, the distribution of proton and oxygen vacancy in Sc - doped BaZrO3 was clarified.

Davidson and Kalin use magnetic resonance imaging (mri), positron emission tomography (pet), and electrical sensing techniques to scour pockets of the brain where emotions dwell, then develop detailed schematics of the neural circuitry among them.

Young hockey players who have suffered concussions may still show changes in the white matter of the brain months after being cleared to return to play, researchers at Western University have found through sophisticated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques.

In order to detect the individual motions of proteins, the scientists used a spectroscopic technique called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which exploits the magnetic properties of certain atoms like hydrogen and carbon.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an imaging technique that measures brain activity, researchers examined all three groups at the beginning (baseline), middle, and end of the study while participants performed computer - based speed tasks in the scanner.

Two techniques used in adults — functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which can measure blood flow; and electroencephalography (EEG), which measures electrical activity in the outer layers of the brain — have their drawbacks.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging — a technique that monitors brain activity in real time — the Johns Hopkins group found reversing a decision requires ultrafast communication between two specific zones within the prefrontal cortex and another nearby structure called the frontal eye field, an area involved in controlling eye movements and visual awareness.

In this study, the researchers looked at the organization of newborn brain tissue using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique.

And its ability to show the shape of dendrites and trace neuronal processes provides contextual information unavailable through imaging techniques such as electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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).

Loeb and colleagues used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy to identify the metabolomic signature of epileptic versus non-epileptic brain tissues removed from nine patients who underwent invasive electrical brain monitoring as part of their epilepsy surgery.

Each subject's brain is comprehensively imaged once a year using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technique that employs an electromagnetic field to detect the shape and density of tissue.

Social psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt and her colleagues at Stanford University studied the phenomenon in nine black and 10 white subjects using a technique called magnetic resonance imaging.

They designed a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to specifically track thoughts related to memories» contexts, and put a new twist on a centuries - old psychological research technique of having subjects memorize and recall a list of unrelated words.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and techniques like ultrasound are being refined and repurposed to look at ever - smaller structures within the brain, and to follow brain activity and metabolism as it happens, the scientists said.

Led by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU / UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the study is the first of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus.

The researchers named this phenomenon Magnetic REsonance Tuning (MRET), which is analogous to the powerful optical sensing technique called Fluorescence Resonance Energy TransfeREsonance Tuning (MRET), which is analogous to the powerful optical sensing technique called Fluorescence Resonance Energy TransfeResonance Energy Transfer (FRET).

The device is based on a variation of magnetic resonance imaging, the medical imaging technique that produces «slices» of the body.

A more generalized version of the technique, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), also offers enormous benefits, enabling scientists to characterize the chemical compositions of materials as well as the structures of proteins and other important biomolecules without having to penetrate the objects under study physically.

Diffusion tensor imaging, a new technique using magnetic resonance, has changed that.

Some at the workshop hope to adapt ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging techniques now used to study the heart and brain to measure blood flow and oxygenation in the placenta.

They measured sugar concentrations in the brains of the study participants using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a noninvasive neuroimaging technique.