Sentences with phrase «of imaging technique»

These diagnostics are performed by veterinarians who specialize in this type of imaging technique.

But Styner, an endocrinologist, has used a new kind of imaging technique to answer at least two: what do diabetes drugs and exercise — or the lack of it — do to bone fat?

The researchers developed a new kind of imaging technique, cryo - electron microscopy, to freeze samples and evaluate the protein structure.

In addition to the unprecedented resolution of this imaging technique, another major step forward lies in it not exposing X-rays to patients.

With the proven success of the imaging technique, Larabell said it's possible to perform statistical analyses based on large collections of cell nuclei images sorted by different stages of development.

Ueda, Kurihara and their colleagues improved the resolution of this imaging technique to be able to observe the internal structure of the cell.

Currently, doctors use a variety of imaging techniques and tests to diagnose and monitor prostate cancer including PSA blood tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), and computerized tomography (CT) scans.

Because a combination of imaging techniques and modeling has revealed that our bones are filled with a natural chemical goo that's key to the bones» function as support structures.

In fact, cell biologists require an entire toolbox of imaging techniques in order to get the answers they want.

A number of imaging techniques will be applied, like fluorescence microscopy and single - molecule AFM.

Whether you are a scientist or engineer looking for a community of peers for discussion and ideas, a physician with insight and interest in applications of imaging techniques, or a technologist trying to better utilize your facility's imaging systems, the CAIC is a Council that needs your expertise.

The presence of metallic implants does not preclude any of these imaging techniques, however.

London, UK About Blog BMC Medical Imaging is an open access journal publishing original peer - reviewed research articles in the development, evaluation, and use of imaging techniques and image processing tools to diagnose and manage disease.

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Whanger built on their findings by examining high - resolution photographs that uncovered new details of the image, as well as using 3D imaging techniques.

Using sophisticated computer - driven imaging techniques like PET (positive emission tomography) and the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers opened up new details about the operation of the brain.

Hyperspectral imaging is a new technique that can inspect the contents of packaging.

As anyone who has been following the subject of sports - related head injuries knows, the concern about RHI has continue to grow exponentially over the past four years, as researchers have used ever more sensitive and sophisticated imaging techniques such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and fMRI to identify short -, medium, and long - term effects on the brain of RHI.

Professor Geddes is internationally renowned for her novel work with ultrasound imaging that has revolutionized our understanding of the anatomy of the lactating breast, milk ejection and blood flow, as well as the infant's sucking technique, suck - swallow - breathe co-ordination, gastric emptying and body composition of both the term and preterm infant.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

And then we also were going to do neuroimaging where, in particular, we're using a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI, which looks at blood flow in the brain and therefore tells us what regions of the brain are involved in a task.

Injuries were once the key to learning how the brain worked, but advanced imaging techniques are now giving us detailed maps of where our skills arise

Levels of emotional reaction do not affirmatively identify false memories, nor do brain imaging techniques, Loftus noted.

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.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

But imaging neuroscientist Karl Friston of University College London, who helped pioneer the VBM technique, says gray matter shrinkage is not necessarily a bad thing.

A new 3 - D imaging technique enables viewers to track the life of living cells — how they grow and move around — without disturbing them.

Professor Jianfeng Feng commented that new technology has made it possible to conduct this trail - blazing study: «human intelligence is a widely and hotly debated topic and only recently have advanced brain imaging techniques, such as those used in our current study, given us the opportunity to gain sufficient insights to resolve this and inform developments in artificial intelligence, as well as help establish the basis for understanding and diagnosis of debilitating human mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.»

«Even the most sophisticated imaging technique is not a substitute for self - report of the pain experience,» he argues.

In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, researchers used a combination of 3D imaging and 3D printing techniques to create a custom silicone guide implanted with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration.

The new technique for functional imaging allows probing of regions on the order of billionths of meters, or nanometers, to characterize a sample's surface hills and valleys, its elasticity (or «bounciness») throughout deeper layers, and its chemical composition.

The new imaging system is the first to demonstrate the imaging capabilities of some of these unusual focusing techniques by replacing conventional, solid lenses with the combination of a malleable lens and a liquid iris - like component.

He says, «Neuroscientists need to be familiar with the language of imaging and in contact with people who understand the fundamentals of imaging, but the people who make the breakthroughs in neuroscience will be the ones who bring the intriguing questions to the new techniques.»

There are also experimental techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which allow us to understand which parts of the brain are most active when we are involved in different cognitive activities.

Giovanni Verri, a researcher at the British Museum, developed an imaging technique sensitive to traces of an ancient pigment, Egyptian blue.

Whereas analyses of the brain were once limited to autopsy samples at the time of a person's death, advances in an imaging technique known as positron emission tomography (PET) now enable researchers to detect amyloid and tau in the brains of living people.

He and a postdoctoral student, Xing Tian, decided to take advantage of a powerful imaging technique called magnetoencephalography, or MEG, to do their reconnaissance work.

«Only about five percent of the first degree family members of a person with diabetes will develop occult disease,» Gaglia, who is firm that for the moment this imaging technique should only be used in the context of research.

Room - temperature investigations apply several techniques (polarization microscopy, single - molecule imaging, emission time dependence, energy transfer, lifetime studies, and the like) to a growing array of biophysical problems where new insight may be gained from direct observations of hidden static and dynamic inhomogeneity.

Progress has recently been made in implementing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can be used to obtain images in a fraction of a second rather than in minutes.

I was very intrigued by the idea of peering inside the brain using new brain - imaging techniques.

At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), scientists have assembled a large database of detailed measurements of the two dimensional (2 - D) structure of edge plasma turbulence made visible by a diagnostic technique known as gas puff imaging.

MD / PhD psychiatrists and neurologists have opportunities not only to apply these techniques to studies of their patients, but also to develop improved imaging methodologies.

Now, using a high - resolution eclipse - imaging technique, a team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic has linked the strange patterns to plasma eruptions on the sun's surface, called solar prominences.

Then, Lorin Milescu's students used live - imaging techniques and software developed in their lab to demonstrate that the Gr28bD protein can, through temperature differences, modulate the brain activity of fruit flies.

Arguably the most convenient and least invasive way of doing that is through functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI — a technique that measures changes in blood flow and blood oxygen levels in the brain, thereby showing which parts of the brain are activated when people perform various tasks.

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

The protein's role in the pathway leading to memory impairment, however, remained unclear until scientists from IMCB utilised live - cell imaging techniques to elucidate the mechanism of memory impairment and illustrated how SNX27 attributes to synaptic dysfunction.

The detection of metastasis depends on imaging techniques that still can't detect micrometastases.

Using data from brain imaging techniques that enable visualising the brain's activity, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and a Parisian ENT surgeon have managed to decipher brain reorganisation processes at work when people start to lose their hearing, and thus predict the success or failure of a cochlear implant among people who have become profoundly deaf in their adult life.

Farmer's experience with Exxon, which involved a variety of imaging and remote sensing techniques to locate geological structures favorable for the accumulation of petroleum, also served him well in working with NASA mission planners and technologists developing the instruments to be carried into Mars orbit by the next generation spacecraft.