Sentences with phrase «on other imaging tests»

By identifying body changes at the cellular level, PET may detect the early onset of disease before it is evident on other imaging tests.

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For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

These in turn depend on development of brain imaging tests or biomarkers that could be measured in the blood or other body fluids to allow a diagnosis of the disease in living people.

Above all, Mankoff says testing of new imaging methods should focus on applications where they clearly represent an advance for patients over other imaging or biopsy - based techniques.

They may include urine tests, imaging scans, psychiatric questionnaires, and blood tests, depending on other symptoms.

(Other screening tests, including virtual colonoscopies — which rely on X-rays and computer imaging instead of a scope — require a follow - up, usually a traditional colonoscopy, if anything suspicious appears.)

All breast cancers are assigned a stage based on biopsy results plus other findings from blood tests and imaging scans.

Imaging - x-rays, ultrasound, or other imaging techniques may be recommended prior to anesthesia and surgery, especially if abnormalities or irregularities are found on routine tImaging - x-rays, ultrasound, or other imaging techniques may be recommended prior to anesthesia and surgery, especially if abnormalities or irregularities are found on routine timaging techniques may be recommended prior to anesthesia and surgery, especially if abnormalities or irregularities are found on routine testing.

Other tests requiring general anesthesia or advanced imaging (such as MRI or CAT scans) will be scheduled based on availability, often on a different day.

The hospital is equipped with an in - house laboratory that provides rapid turn - around of results of blood tests and other fluids, and also has on - site high quality diagnostic imaging (radiology and ultrasound).

«Our technology will provide significantly higher forces and faster impact cycles than have previously been possible, and by building these tools onto microfluidic devices, we can leverage a host of other on - chip diagnostics and imaging tools and can collect the cells after testing for longer - term studies,» said Valentine.

Sadly, soft tissue injuries that cause real pain do not show up on diagnostic imaging or other objective tests.

Other tests like an echocardiogram (ultrasound imaging of your heart), an EKG, or a stress test on a treadmill are considered to be preventative tests because the doctor might catch your stenosis even before you are symptomatic.