Sentences with phrase «other imaging studies»

Unlike some other imaging studies, like X-rays, ultrasonography does not use radiation.

In both dogs and cats, your veterinarian may elect to perform chest radiographs (x-rays), an echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart), or other imaging studies, or to refer your pet to a specialist for these procedures.

Unlike some other imaging studies, like x-rays, ultrasonography does not use radiation.

He obviously needed hospitalization, IV fluids, blood work, urinalysis, and possibly x-rays or other imaging studies and even tube feeding — and all of that just to diagnose his cat health condition.

Not exact matches

Studies have shown that trying to use ultrasounds or other imaging to guesstimate whether the baby (or babies) will fit through mom's pelvis doesn't help the birth outcome.

If any particular lump feels much firmer than the other areas of your breast, visit your doctor for a clinical breast exam, and discuss whether imaging studies or a needle biopsy should be done to rule out breast cancer.

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.

Cognitive neuroscientists have studied this distinction with brain imaging techniques and the findings — unsurprisingly — tell us a lot about our increasingly polarised world today and the ways our brains process the distinction between us and «others».

A brain - imaging study has offered new support for the notion that infants can accurately track other people's beliefs, and they have the ability to know other...

In addition, he believes that modern imaging provides a bridge between human cognitive neuroscience and animal studies, allowing more inferences from one to the other.

In past imaging studies, my colleagues and I noticed that cervical tumors that took up a lot of glucose prior to radiation treatment tended to be more resistant to radiation therapy than other tumors.

During imaging studies probing the causes of addiction, the insula often was activated when drug abusers were shown movies of others taking drugs or shown pictures of cocaine, heroin or nicotine.

What is more, brain imaging studies have shown that people watching others yawning have more activity in parts of the brain associated with self - information processing.

«We may find other candidates perhaps even better than this one, but for now Proxima b offers a best - case scenario for imaging and studying a potentially Earth - like planet within the next decade.»

Infrared rays collected by the mirror bounce to one of three instruments: an imaging camera, a spectrograph that breaks up infrared light into its constituent wavelengths (creating an infrared rainbow), and a combined camera - spectrograph that studies a somewhat different part of the infrared spectrum than the other two.

Researchers are also studying other imaging technologies for breast cancer treatment monitoring, such as MRI, X-ray imaging, and ultrasound, but Hielscher notes that these have not yet shown as much promise as this new technology.

«This approach offers a potentially new and safe way of treating liver cancer, and possibly other cancers,» said study senior author Dr. Ian Corbin, Assistant Professor in the Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) and of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern.

A novel molecular imaging technique could be the key to understanding how best to treat these and other devastating diseases, according to a recent study presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (imaging technique could be the key to understanding how best to treat these and other devastating diseases, according to a recent study presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (Imaging (SNMMI).

The MIT team now plans to study whether this kind of brain imaging could help identify children who are at risk of developing dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

Carson and his colleagues plan future studies involving PET imaging of synapses to research epilepsy and other brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, depression, and Parkinson's disease.

In the late 1990s brain - imaging studies revealed that discrete regions of the temporal lobe — a section of the human brain important for object recognition — fired up more strongly when people looked at faces than at any other thing.

Because calcium imaging is widely used to identify cells in tissues throughout the body, researchers studying other systems will be able to benefit from the published methodology.

Functional MR imaging taken while the animals received either a juice reward or VTA stimulation revealed that both induced activation of brain regions that previous studies in humans and other primates have associated with reward signaling by means of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

«By using mobile thermal imaging to monitor only breathing, we obtained results very comparable to what other studies had found,» said Bianchi - Berthouze.

Most other groups studying phase contrast X-ray imaging are looking into the technique for medical imaging, while Sandia is studying it for materials science applications.

Noninvasive imaging using PET and other technologies reduces the number of animals in a study by permitting the use of animals as their own controls, according to the authors.

The study, published online in the Aug. 21, 2015, issue of Nature Communications, was led by Zheng - Rong Lu, Ph.D., CWRU M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of biomedical engineering and an expert in molecular imaging for cancer and other diseases.

«Further studies are being planned by our group to clarify the association between EAT and a-fib and the interplay with other a-fib risk factors,» said Mushabbar Syed, MD, Loyola's medical director of cardiovascular imaging and a co-author of the study.

Another potential use for this material, besides photovoltaics, is that in microscopy or imaging, researchers often need to «label» a protein or other feature with a nanoparticle «probe» to make it light up so it is easier to see and study.

In the clincher, Nausica Arnoult, a postdoc in the Karlseder lab and one of the study's co-authors, took advantage of a fluorescent tag that others had embedded into one chromosome's telomeric end and then used a whole chromosome imaging method called FISH to track where the tag went over time.

Gupta and other researchers at NYU, in a study in the May 2016 issue of JOM, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, demonstrated that defects inserted in 3D printed components can be so small that they can avoid detection by commonly used imaging techniques but can nonetheless affect the performance.

Last summer, researchers demonstrated that non-invasive imaging combined with a staining technique enables the fast comparison and study of earthworm species and other animals in unprecedented detail.

In partnership with Alberta Health Services and with the support of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Dunn will be teaming up with physicians at the Alberta Children's Hospital, and other UCalgary researchers at the CSM and in the faculties of Kinesiology and Arts to use the imaging device to study concussion in children.

Other UT Southwestern researchers involved in the study were Dr. Ramzi Abdulrahman, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology; Dr. Arthur Sagalowsky, Professor of Urology and Surgery, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds The Dr. Paul Peters Chair in Urology in Memory of Rumsey and Louis Strickland; Dr. Ivan Pedrosa, Associate Professor of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds the Jack Reynolds, M.D., Chair in Radiology; Dr. Hak Choy, Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology who holds The Nancy B. & Jake L. Hamon Distinguished Chair in Therapeutic Oncology Research; and Dr. James Brugarolas, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Developmental Biology, leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, and Virginia Murchison Linthicum Endowed Scholar; and other researchers including Stephen Chun, Dr. Nathan Cannon, and Dr. NathanOther UT Southwestern researchers involved in the study were Dr. Ramzi Abdulrahman, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology; Dr. Arthur Sagalowsky, Professor of Urology and Surgery, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds The Dr. Paul Peters Chair in Urology in Memory of Rumsey and Louis Strickland; Dr. Ivan Pedrosa, Associate Professor of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center, co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, who holds the Jack Reynolds, M.D., Chair in Radiology; Dr. Hak Choy, Chair and Professor of Radiation Oncology who holds The Nancy B. & Jake L. Hamon Distinguished Chair in Therapeutic Oncology Research; and Dr. James Brugarolas, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Developmental Biology, leader of the Kidney Cancer Program, and Virginia Murchison Linthicum Endowed Scholar; and other researchers including Stephen Chun, Dr. Nathan Cannon, and Dr. Nathanother researchers including Stephen Chun, Dr. Nathan Cannon, and Dr. Nathan Kim.

In a new study reported in Cell, an international group of plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University and other research institutes, have examined the ovules of plant cells by live - imaging to reveal a novel cell - elimination system based on an unusual cell fusion.

Invaluable as markers for monitoring photosynthesis and other energy - related processes in living cells, green fluorescent proteins (GFPs), discovered in a species of jellyfish, are vital in extremely high - resolution imaging studies.

The study, which appears in academic journal Brain Imaging and Behavior, also reports that participants were subjectively more preoccupied with food at night even though their hunger and «fullness» levels were similar to other times of the day.

Imaging of the coronary arteries with computed tomography (CT) angiography provides an accurate assessment of arterial plaque and could have a dramatic impact on the management of diabetic patients who face a high risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology.

Imaging study finds that pure oxygen feeds routinely administered to revive stroke victims and others may do more harm than good

In a 2006 study by Montague and others, pairs of subjects had their brains scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, as they played a game requiring them to take turns.

Some brain imaging studies have shown activation of speech areas during mathematical tasks, while others have not.

Studies of meditation carried out with other techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography, have revealed different patterns of neural activity — not surprisingly, since meditation is a complex behavior that evokes many different psychological states.

«And many studies of the brain and central nervous system, using imaging, EEG and other objective measures of brain structure and function, add to the existing evidence that central nervous system dysfunction is a critical element in the disorder.

Temptation Zone An imaging study reveals how the brains of some dieters stay disciplined and others give in to cravings.

Imaging studies of the brain DA system in marijuana abusers have also shown different findings from those reported for other types of substance abusers.

At the Museum of the Rockies we house one of the largest dinosaur collections in the country, and maintain two laboratories, one for the study of cellular and molecular paleontology, and the other for 3 - D imaging utilizing data from CT and 3 - D scanners.

«When we analyzed the Keck data, we found the emitting region of SDSS1133 is less than 40 light - years across, and that the center of Markarian 177 shows evidence of intense star formation and other features indicating a recent disturbance that matched what we expected for a recoiling black hole,» said Chao - Ling Hung, a UH Manoa graduate student performing the analysis of the Keck Observatory imaging in the study.

High - end microscopes, high - speed cameras and other advanced imaging systems give members of the RISD community access to living and non-living specimens at multiple scales and provide an engaging platform for examining myriad connections between artistic and scientific study.

A second major theme is the development of methods for studying human brain structure and function using MRI and for integrating fMRI data with other imaging methods such as EEG.