Sentences with phrase «noninvasive measures»

That information is useful in the laboratory; it's not so useful in the clinical domain where we really want our noninvasive measures that serve as surrogates for the earliest pathogenic events.

A rotation diet is a noninvasive measure that allows the nursing mother to pinpoint her baby's particular allergens and modify her own diet in a way that will, hopefully, eliminate the infant's allergic reactions.

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Together, these findings demonstrate that emerging noninvasive techniques to measure corneal nerve fiber alterations such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy may be useful clinical tools to screen for and monitor progression of peripheral neuropathy in HIV - infected patients.

In the future, measuring substance P levels in the tear film might become a useful, noninvasive test for assessing the risk of peripheral neuropathy in patients with diabetes.

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.

Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by scanning the brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.

Functional MRI and other noninvasive imaging techniques, which have revealed much about other parts and functions of the brain, are too imprecise to measure the exact neurological activity responsible for speech.

With this noninvasive method, researchers may be able to follow the progression of many brain disorders, including epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease, by measuring changes in synaptic density over time.

The authors measured the proportion of patients in each group who received cardiac catheterization, a coronary revascularization procedure or future noninvasive test, as well as those hospitalized for heart attack (acute myocardial infarction, MI).

Quite a bit is known about the physiology of response to threat, and some of this can be measured by simple noninvasive tests.

Previous studies have shown that when a typically developing 20 - month - old child hears a word that she doesn't know, a characteristic uptick in brain waves in the left hemisphere of the brain can be detected through electroencephalography (EEG), a noninvasive method of measuring the brain's electrical activity.

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

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.

But he says he's skeptical of the urine technique because «no one has developed a noninvasive method to measure oxytocin or vasopressin before.»

Measuring tumors» oxygen levels could help doctors make decisions about treatments, but there's currently no reliable, noninvasive way to make such measurements.

Pulse wave velocity is measured by noninvasive devices that track the speed of blood flow by calculating differences between arteries in the neck and the leg.

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.

Although there's not much hope for the routine use of scent dogs in cancer screening — they're too expensive, for one thing — the current findings suggest that other noninvasive screening measures could be developed to pick up the same scent.

This noninvasive method for measuring rest relies on accelerometers to detect the wearer's position and movement.

Suction blister wounds are an excellent model for studying the effects of early wound healing.50 Measurement of the rate of transepidermal water loss (TEWL) through human skin provides a noninvasive method to monitor changes in the stratum corneum barrier function of the skin, providing an excellent objective method for evaluation of wound healing.51 The 8 blister sites were assessed daily for 8 days following removal of the blister chambers50 and then again on day 12, along with daily control values from adjacent nonwounded skin; after subtracting the average control values from the average daily measurement, the 90 % standard for healing was based on reaching 90 % of the day 1 measures.