Sentences with phrase «noninvasive screening»

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.

The prototype for a noninvasive screening test for cancer is developed by Cancer Center researchers.

Although there is a noninvasive screening test that indicates the likelihood a fetus has Down syndrome, pregnant women who want a definitive answer currently have two choices: amniocentesis, which involves inserting a needle into the uterus to withdraw fluid, or another procedure that extracts a piece of placental tissue.

Findings from mouse models suggest that eye examination could be used as a noninvasive screening tool for human brain diseases.

If successful, it will be the first noninvasive screening test for gastric cancer: the second deadliest cancer worldwide and one with a particularly high prevalence among Asian populations.

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Many call this the best baby thermometer but it only got the sixth place on our list; the Braun forehead thermometer has a color - coded screen and is noninvasive.

Examples include noninvasive cancer screening, ultrafast data transmission and, for gaming, refined motion - sensing and gesture recognition.

Recently, DNA shed from tumor cells has been identified as a noninvasive method of screening biomarkers for the early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

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.

«There's no cheap, fast, noninvasive test that can identify people at risk of Alzheimer's,» says Brad Dolin, chief technology officer of Neurotrack in Palo Alto, Calif. — a company developing a computerized visual screening test for Alzheimer's.

A noninvasive jaundice screening tool is available in some hospitals and clinics, but the instrument costs several thousand dollars and isn't feasible for home use.

The San Diego — based genetic diagnosis company Sequenom launched the first noninvasive prenatal screening for Down syndrome using Lo's technique last October.

He adds that a relatively noninvasive blood test would encourage people to get screened frequently.

Intravascular ultrasound can quantify non-calcified and calcified coronary artery plaque, but it is invasive and unsuitable for screening purposes, and coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring with CT, a common noninvasive option, has limitations.

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.

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) by maternal plasma DNA sequencing is now clinically available for screening fetal chromosomal aneuploidies; these tests have close to 99 % sensitivity..

The Insight is noninvasive, supporting a fear - free environment for pets and offers a user - friendly touch - screen interface.