Sentences with phrase «resolution brain scanners»
As the cost of high - resolution brain scanners dropped over the course of the 8 to 10 years, universities snapped them up for research.
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Then they would lie in a high - resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for a grueling 90 minutes while the machine took pictures in 2 - millimeter increments of their nucleus accumbens, a region deep in the brain that (among other things) controls reward and motivation.
Dr Dickie added: «Through a unique collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, which is funded by the Stroke Association in the UK, the next step is to test the brain health index approach in newly - developed brain scanners, such as the ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner at the University of Glasgow's Imaging Centre of Excellence, and in larger groups of patients.
In 2012, our laboratory initiated a study of AAN structural connectivity in ex vivo human brain specimens and in a living human subject - a study made possible by high resolution MRI scanners and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) sequences developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.