Sentences with phrase «new tracer»

This new tracer technology is a stable, non-invasive, non-toxic tracer that can be used for long term fluid identification.

We are working with Rice University to develop a new tracer technology for hydraulic fracturing fluids.

«First human application of novel PET tracer for prostate cancer: New tracer holds promise of monitoring targeted treatment of various cancers.»

The study compared the effectiveness of the new tracer with 11C - choline (already widely used for imaging prostate cancer) in two mouse models and also performed the first PET / CT scan with 11C - sarcosine of a human with prostate cancer.

A new tracer can enable surgeons to make an accurate identification of the sentinel node — the lymph node to which cancer spreads first — and hence spare patients the post-operative complications that may be linked to the removal of a group of lymph nodes in the neck.

This new tracer targets two biomarkers, gastrin - releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) and integrin αvβ3, that often indicate prostate cancer.

Previous tracers have targeted GRPR but this new tracer is one of the first dual - receptor target tracers, or tracers that target more than one biomarker, to be studied in humans.

«We think these gold compounds will be a powerful platform to prepare new tracers, and we're working to improve the system and to identify promising, clinically - relevant drug targets,» he said.

«The tests confirm that we have generated new tracers that allow us to identify coal ash contaminants in the environment and delineate them from contaminants from other sources in the same watershed, including hydraulic fracturing,» Vengosh said.

We will consider near - infrared, confocal endomicroscopy (two - colour CellVizio technology), two - photon microscopy, single photon emission tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scan platforms available from CEA, HZI and INRA, and will develop new tracers to tag antigens, adjuvants, particles / vehicles and vectors for the in vivo visualisation of dissemination and biodistribution.

Not exact matches

Visible from North Carolina to upstate New York, the eerie trails were created by five suborbital NASA rockets that soared to altitudes of 50 to 80 miles, where they released chemical tracers that reacted with oxygen in the thin upper atmosphere.

The Champalimaud Center for Translation Eye Research (C - TRACER), part of the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, will continue research begun by LV Prasad scientists, who use eye stem cells from living adults to grow new cells that are then implanted into damaged eyes.

This new study is believed to be the first reported to analyze the association between EGFR mutation status in tumor tissue and 18F labeled EGFR - TKI tracer uptake in NSCLC patients.

In this new work, Carrigan's team injected gas tracers into an old cavity in Nevada created by an underground nuclear explosion and studied how the gases were transported and released from the cavity.

DeVries and fellow researchers Mark Holzer of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and François Primeau of UC Irvine compiled existing oceanographic tracer data — measurements of temperature, salinity, CFCs (humanmade gases that dissolve into the ocean) and carbon - 14 — and separated it into three decade - long time periods: the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s.

«Seeing more with PET scans: New chemistry for medical imaging: Surprising new mechanism for attaching chemical tracers discovered.&raqNew chemistry for medical imaging: Surprising new mechanism for attaching chemical tracers discovered.&raqnew mechanism for attaching chemical tracers discovered.»

The concept of a tracer is not new: Other substances, mainly caffeine and certain pharmaceuticals — all of which are used in sufficient quantities that experts say they are ubiquitous in domestic wastewater — have been used to identify water that has made the trek down the drain.

«When we got the first inkling that our new mechanism might be useful for developing radioactive tracers, we started looking at Berkeley Lab and its Biomedical Isotope Facility, which was really central to this work,» Levin said.

In the featured translational article in the August issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers at the University of Michigan demonstrate the potential of a new PET tracer, Carbon - 11 labeled sarcosine (11C - sarcosine), for imaging prostate cancer, and set the stage for its possible use in monitoring other cancers.

Duke University scientists have developed new forensic tracers to identify coal ash contamination in water and distinguish it from contamination coming from other sources.

The chemical reactions she has developed are widely used throughout the pharmaceutical industry to create new drug candidates, are being studied by chemical companies interested in accessing important chemicals used in farming, and are being utilized to prepare a type of chemical (tracer) that allows doctors to view the heart's sympathetic nervous system through positron emission tomography (PET) scans.

Other uses of new chemical technologies include tracers and reporters for geomapping and well connectivity, as well as different types of fluid loss agents that prevent formation damage or keep well integrity, and smart and stimuli - responsive nanoparticles that can be used for improving gelation.

We asked Gardiner to share some insight on skip tracers and introduce readers to the heroine at the heart of her gripping new book.

Meg Gardiner's new novel, The Shadow Tracer, is an explosive thriller about Sarah Keller, a single mom and a skip tracer.

Child of Eden introduces a new way to take on enemies; the default control layout will have you using your tracer with your left hand which is primarily used for taking out any creatures infected by a virus.

«LIGHT TRACER brings a new style of platform game to PS VR players, offering a journey of challenging puzzles, colossal heights and artistic visuals,» said Alen Wu, Business Director at Oasis Games.

Using ozone as a tracer, it develops a new rationale for climate modeling.

Linear systems theory and tracer measurements are not new subjects, both having been around for the better part of a century.

BobC @ 183 — «Linear systems theory and tracer measurements are not new subjects, both having been around for the better part of a century.

Organisms there consume that stuff, some producing CO2, some producing CH4, some consuming the CH4 — but that's new carbon, with its ample tracer of atomic bomb Carbon - 14.