Sentences with phrase «noninvasive techniques»

Before Dr. Inman began using these noninvasive techniques, he was an accomplished veterinary surgeon and still consults in veterinary surgery.

Noninvasive techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), can be administered from outside the head and are currently approved for the treatment of depression.

Which noninvasive techniques hold the greatest promise?

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.

A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low - intensity electrical currents.

Clarke used a noninvasive technique at UT Austin's High - Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility, an NSF - funded multi-user facility, to create a 3 - D, computed tomographic image of the V. iaai fossil.

Called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), the noninvasive technique uses electromagnets to create localized electrical currents in the brain.

«This is a proof - of - concept study demonstrating that frontal sinus X-rays offer a viable, noninvasive technique for estimating the age range of juvenile remains,» says Ann Ross, a professor of biological sciences at NC State and senior author of a paper describing the work.

«They've made the first comparative study using nonhuman primates of the cerebral processing of voices, and they've done it with a noninvasive technique by training dogs to lie in a scanner.»

The noninvasive technique relies on single - walled carbon nanotubes that can be optically triggered to emit shortwave infrared light.

The team is now working with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who hope to use the new, noninvasive technique to study cells involved in cancer, asthma, and other conditions in which cell properties change as a disease progresses.

«Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease: Researchers gauge a cell's stiffness, which can reflect cancer or other conditions, simply by watching it.»

Instead, biophysicist Fernando Montealegre - Z detected the structure while examining three - dimensional images of the insects» inner ears from high - powered CT scans — a noninvasive technique used to examine fossilized bones and other artifacts without causing damage.

They are testing a noninvasive technique to pump blood from the patient's lower body up towards the chest to improve circulation.

«This is exciting as all subjects accomplished the tasks using a completely noninvasive technique.

«While this is promising, we have many steps to go to translate these discoveries from mice into a therapy for humans using this noninvasive technique,» Singer said during the press conference.

Not exact matches

The good news is, babies with plagiocephaly typically respond very well to noninvasive treatments, such as repositioning techniques, which parents can practice at home, and the DOC Band, a custom cranial helmet that redirects baby's natural growth into a normal head shape.

The discoveries were revealed using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) and other noninvasive imaging techniques, according to panel of experts during a Feb. 17 news briefing at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting.

He says, «These techniques give us the ability to look in on the intact, functioning human brain — in some cases in very noninvasive ways.»

The cellular structures behind these messages have not yet been identified, but in the April 1 PLoS ONE, Fels suggests that these signals could lead to novel noninvasive medical techniques.

«We observed no serious side effects in patients treated with dTMS, and it is therefore worth stressing the tolerability of this noninvasive electrophysiological technique,» says Prof. Paul, the study's principal investigator.

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.

More generally, she hopes to demonstrate the archaeological value of using noninvasive methods like lidar and high - resolution photography to explore sensitive areas — techniques that could be used at sites as diverse as the killing fields in Cambodia and World War II — era shooting trenches in Eastern Europe.

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

Last spring, scientists at the Salk Institute in California announced the creation of a technique for transforming simple skin cells scraped from patients with schizophrenia into functional neurons, a major step toward more personalized, noninvasive approaches to drug testing.

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

With recent developments in contrast agents and pulse sequences, some state - of - the - art techniques greatly improve the MR image quality by overcoming the time and spatial resolution limitations and have been used for noninvasive evaluation of hepatic steatosis and vascular and biliary anatomy.

With increasing use of noninvasive imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT), ECAC is increasingly recognized in the adult population, especially in association with cigarette smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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

The labs, led by Sirlin and Ehman, invented and validated the advanced noninvasive imaging techniques applied in this study.

Using noninvasive cardiac magnetic resonance imaging techniques, they were able to confirm the presence of myocardial inflammation in a patient who tested positive for cardiac myosin autoantibodies.

They also use noninvasive imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), to study the development and functioning of the primate brain

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.

What's more, Rose writes, «the results have exciting implications if noninvasive brain stimulation techniques can be used to reactivate and potentially strengthen latent memories» — in other words, recovering information that had been forever lost.

The coronary artery calcium (CAC) score is a noninvasive imaging technique that quantifies arterial calcification.

This is a simple, noninvasive massage technique which can shift the internal reproductive organs.

This technique is already used in the human medial field, and has proven to be safe, accurate, noninvasive and quick.

13 Kelly R, Fitchett D. Noninvasive Determination of Aortic Input Impedance and External Left Ventricular Power Output: A Validation and Repeatability Study of a New Technique.

Dental techniques and materials allow for simpler, noninvasive treatment of oral injuries with no additional dental damage.