Sentences with phrase «shine near infrared light»
Once the nanoparticles are absorbed, the researchers shine near infrared light on the tumors.
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There are some pilot studies going on right now using near infrared light to treat diabetic retinopathy where they're literally shining the near infrared light right into the eye.
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The instrument is sensitive to near - infrared light, the wavelengths at which the emissions of extremely distant galaxies — stretched by the expansion of space — shine most brightly.
They then shone near - infrared light on the tissue, which is just beyond the red colours that our eyes can normally see, and used a special camera to detect the near - infrared light the dye gave out.
An LED or some other source of near - infrared (IR) light is shined on a person's eyes.
The near - infrared light that causes the nanotubes to fluoresce can penetrate about eight centimeters into human tissue, so physicians could potentially shine the light through skin and flesh to look for fluorescence from nanotubes signaling the presence of cancer cells.