Sentences with phrase «new imaging tool»

Using chemicals like these in combination with new imaging tools, such as the multi-photon confocal microscope, has enabled researchers to explore the minuscule world of the neuron and observe brain cells in action with far more precision.

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.

In the July issue of Neuron, a team at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, describes a powerful new imaging tool that helps read the brain's «smell code.»

«Scientists apply new imaging tool to common brain disorders.»

New imaging tools borrowed from medical research and industrial engineering are beginning to liberate some of evolution's most closely held secrets.

The rest will be devoted to two groundbreaking clinical trials, one of which builds on the fact that Alzheimer's begins to attack the brain 10 - 15 years before symptoms appear — a conclusion confirmed by new imaging tools that allow the disease to be monitored in living people.

Developing new imaging tools that can track cancer stem cells in the brain of treated patients is also an important objective and some of the Emory investigators are evaluating the use of nanoparticles to this purpose.

Using these new imaging tools, scientists can now track how errant genes associated with Alzheimer's behave.

The researchers built upon a new imaging tool they had developed in a previous study that uses EEG to measure changes in amygdala activity, indicated by its «electrical fingerprint.»

The findings show that with this new imaging tool, people can modify both the neural processes and behavioral manifestations of their emotions.

This is personalized medicine on the surgical front with a new imaging tool in the surgeon's hand,» says Dr. Preul.