Sentences with phrase «ultrasound imaging of»

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.
X-ray or ultrasound imaging of the chest or the abdominal area may be warranted, depending on the other results.
Detailed ultrasound imaging of the heart, including color flow Doppler, allows the evaluation of the chamber dimensions, contractility, heart valves and pericardium.
Their work described the pathology associated with the defect and enabled affected cats to be detected using ultrasound imaging of the kidneys.
Mark Kittleson, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, and his colleagues at the University of California, Davis, determined that HCM is an autosomal dominant inherited disease in Maine Coon Cats, and established guidelines for diagnosis of HCM using ultrasound imaging of the heart.
In the mice with cancer, the probes enabled detailed, 3 - D ultrasound imaging of hypoxic tumors.
The study entitled «Feasibility of photoacoustic / ultrasound imaging of synovitis in finger joints using a point - of - care system» was conducted and published by Pim van den Berg, Khalid Daoudi and Wiendelt Steenbergen from the University of Twente research institute MIRA in cooperation with rheumatologist Hein Moens of Ziekenhuis group Twente.
Neal Pollock, Ph.D., research director of Divers Alert Network (DAN), led a team that conducted ultrasound imaging of the divers» hearts after ascent from deep dives.
Echocardiography (ultrasound imaging of the heart) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging do not expose patients to ionizing radiation.
Ultrasound imaging of milk ejection in the breast of lactating women.

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Dr. Jay Baker, chair of the American College of Radiology breast imaging communications committee, agreed that the ultrasound alone would have «almost certainly» identified the cyst.
Ultrasound technology is best known for its use in imaging technology, in which sound waves help doctors get a sense of what's going on inside the body.
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One of them — «the most accurate but least common» type — is called ultrasound imaging, and it would mean a fingerprint reader embedded in a display.
While greater effort has been made to enhance the imaging clarity of ultrasounds, finer details can still be lost.
But the clarity and precision of modern imaging, as well as more frequent use of ultrasound during pregnancy, makes it less likely that a twin would remain hidden.
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.
Anatomy of the lactating human breast redefined with ultrasound imaging.
CAREstream America also distributes a large line of Aesthetic products ranging from water - jet assisted technology, to ultrasound imaging, to cell counting and vascular access imaging.
I also advocate following the cervix with ultrasound, especially if it looks concerning on abdominal imaging or if a woman has a history of early delivery in prior pregnancy.
This could improve the resolution of ultrasound imaging.
Novel 3D vascular ultrasound imaging technology allowed researchers to quantify the amount of carotid artery plaque burden lining each patient's carotid arteries in their neck, while a coronary artery calcium score CT scan allowed for the identification of any narrowing or hardening of the coronary arteries due to the buildup of fatty cholesterol and calcified plaque.
High utilization of ultrasound and MRI implies that organizers of future Olympic programs should ensure wide availability of these imaging modalities.
Dr. Guermazi and colleagues set out to describe the occurrence of imaging - depicted sports - related stress injuries, fractures, and muscle and tendon disorders, and to document the usage of imaging with X-ray, ultrasound and MRI.
Of the 1,015 imaging exams performed, 304 (30 percent) were X-ray, 104 (10.2 percent) were ultrasound, and 607 (59.8 percent) were MRI.
«This is the first demonstration of all - optical ultrasound imaging in a clinically realistic environment.
The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or ultrasound can be helpful when identifying and diagnosing peroneal tendon injuries and disorders.
Reflections of these ultrasonic pulses from tissue are detected by a sensor on a second optical fibre, giving real - time ultrasound imaging to guide surgery.
The manipulation of sound waves has led to critical technologies such as ultrasound imaging.
Even with the availability of ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) scans, X-rays remain among the cheapest and often most effective means of seeing inside the body.
The ability to focus could improve ultrasound imaging, according to Spadoni, who described the work online in the April 5 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
According to Xiao, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a hybrid optical imaging technique that combines the high optical contrast of pure optical imaging with the high spatial resolution and the deep imaging depth of ultrasound.
The patients with chest pain diagnoses were classified into 1 of 5 testing strategies: no noninvasive testing, exercise electrocardiography (EE, evaluates the heart's electrical activity), stress echocardiography (SE, ultrasound), myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS, scan of heart) or coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA, CT imaging).
In current ultrasound machines, the lens which focuses the ultrasound waves are limited to cylindrical or spherical shapes, restricting the clarity of the imaging.
Several years ago, researchers from the University of Twente joined forces with a number of companies to develop a prototype for a machine that would combine ultrasound and photoacoustics medical imaging techniques.
A new ultrasound imaging technique has provided the first ever in vivo visualization of activity in the piriform cortex of rats during odor perception..
Seeking to develop something small, yet powerful, Baud and colleagues turned to ultrasound, an imaging technology that uses high - frequency sound waves to capture moving images of structures inside the body.
In ultrasound imaging, the sound is transmitted into the body, where it bounces off of various tissues in a variety of ways and produces waves that can also be detected on the skin.
When excited by light, they produce an ultrasound signal, allowing direct 3 - D imaging of hypoxic areas.
Oncologists at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center are the first in San Diego to meld magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology with a traditional ultrasound prostate exam to create a three - dimensional map of the prostate that allows physicians to view growths that were previously undetectable.
«We hope it will ultimately do for ultrasound what green fluorescent protein has done for light - based imaging techniques, which is to really revolutionize the imaging of cells in ways there were not possible before.»
A 2014 behavioral study of expectant fathers showed that midpregnancy ultrasound imaging was a «magic moment» in the dads» emerging connection with their baby.
The problem of clamping and associated long - term damage only became apparent with the advances achieved in imaging with ultrasound and computed tomography.
«More efforts, such as clinical decision support, are needed to reduce unnecessary cardiac stress testing,» Dr. Ladapo concludes, suggesting greater use of stress testing without radiological imaging, such as regular exercise treadmill tests or stress testing with ultrasound imaging as opposed to CT imaging.
One unit used bedside ultrasound as the standard of care for diagnosis; the second used conventional imaging, such as x-rays and CT scans, as its standard of care in diagnosis.
Nanoparticles made with a shell of silica (SiO2) and a core of radiopaque tantalum oxide (TaOx) are used to make a tissue adhesive and visible to ultrasound, X-ray, and fluorescent imaging.
Ultrasound, also called sonography, is an imaging method that uses high - frequency sound waves to produce images that lead to diagnosis and treatment of many diseases and medical conditions.
Technology that keeps track of how your smartphone is oriented can now give $ 50,000 ultrasound machines many of the 3 - D imaging abilities of their $ 250,000 counterparts — for the cost of a $ 10 microchip.
Because of space and power constraints, an ultrasound machine has been the only medical imaging tool for humans on the ISS since 2002.
To study the predictive value of MRI plaque imaging, researchers performed carotid artery ultrasound and MRI on 946 asymptomatic patients from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
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