Sentences with phrase «uses beams of light»

Magnetic manipulation also offers advantages over optogenetics, a relatively new technique that precisely stimulates or silences neurons using beams of light.

M.I.T. researchers have created such a tweezer, using beams of light.

By turning the anxiety cells off and on using a technique called optogenetics, which allows scientists to control the activity of neurons using beams of light, the researchers demonstrated that the anxiety cells control anxiety - related avoidance behaviors.

They also figured out how to control the neurons using a beam of light, a discovery that could lead to a more effective treatment for the disorder.

Through optogenetics, a new technique that alters specific cells using a beam of light, the group toned down such activity to determine its effect on the animals.

Melton Veterinary Hospital uses Class IV laser therapy, a phototherapeutic device that uses a beam of light to stimulate the body to heal itself from within.

Cold laser therapy, also called Class IV laser therapy, is a noninvasive procedure using a beam of light traveling at a specific frequency to generate heat, which stimulates cells and increases blood flow to the affected area.

It's a type of treatment where «a cold laser uses a beam of light to stimulate damaged cells to produce more energy» (Veterinary General).

Laser surgery uses a beam of light energy at a specific wavelength.

The cold laser uses a beam of light as it gently passed over the affected area so that the cellular function is increased.

Cold laser therapy, also called Class IV laser therapy, is a noninvasive procedure using a beam of light travelling at a specific frequency to generate heat, which stimulates cells and increases blood flow to the affected area.

We enjoyed the crisp and vibrant photos taken with the G3's 13 - MP camera, and we loved its laser feature that uses a beam of light to quickly measure the distance between your device and your subject, ensuring faster, more accurate photos.

A wireless sensor usually uses a beam of light and sets off whenever something breaks the beam.

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North Point's funky architecture, the hologram that beams Stanley's image to satellite churches, the stage lights and visual props Stanley uses during sermons — all of it is geared toward pulling in that new audience.

I think the crank flash lights have stronger beams of light and hold a charge a little longer between cranks and would be a safer for a child to use.

When you need to use it, it produces a 600 - foot beam of light.

Abir Mukherjee of AUG Signals in Toronto says existing set - ups, which use light beam tripwires, are not reliable.

What's filling the tunnel is the beam pipe: the hardware used to accelerate subatomic particles (protons, mostly) to 99.999999 percent of the speed of light.

They use a near - infrared laser beam, which can penetrate deep — in this context, deep means a centimeter or two — into the tissue, where a nanoparticle turns the near - infrared light into blue light, and that directs the activity of genetically engineered immune cells.

An electron microscope, which uses a beam of electrons as a light source, recorded the raw data that was then analyzed to create 3 - D reconstructions of the structures.

The technique, called microenvironmental selective plane illumination microscopy (meSPIM), uses exceptionally long, thin beams of laser light to trigger fluorescence in a sample, causing it to glow.

The ANU team not only succeeded in building the experiment, which seemed nearly impossible when it was proposed in 1978, but reversed Wheeler's original concept of light beams being bounced by mirrors, and instead used atoms scattered by laser light.

BEAMS of electrons can pick up and move tiny objects, just like optical tweezers that manipulate items using light.

The researchers used a coherent, nanoscale beam of X-rays generated by the high - flux synchrotron accelerator at the Advanced Light Source to interrogate each nanoparticle.

Using a smart tablet and a red beam of light, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a system that allows people to control a fleet of robots with the swipe of a finger.

Like the existing facility, LCLS - II will use electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light to generate beams of extremely bright X-ray laser light.

That's key to producing negative refraction, which the researchers demonstrated by cutting the slab into a wedge and using it as a prism to bend light beams of various colors.

The team monitored the passage of light through the waveguide using a near - field scanning optical microscope and confirmed that a narrow beam of light successfully passes through the waveguide forwards, but that the wave's symmetry breaks down when traveling backwards2.

Since the analysis uses light beams, SHP is not limited to thin sections of biopsy specimens — in fact, one can apply the method directly in live tissue, where it allows to inspect a site of interest with the aid of fibre - optics.

A camera was used to capture the beams of light and an artificial neural network was deployed to reveal the pattern and remove any possible disturbances that may have been caused by air turbulence.

Guided by theory and using computer simulations to test various scenarios, the researchers looked at how beams of various colors and phases — basically a hodgepodge of laser light — affected the plasma.

The device makes use of a phenomenon called electromagnetically induced transparency, in which a laser beam can render opaque clouds of atoms temporarily transparent to a narrow wavelength of light.

The research team from the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, and the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Bath, used a special white - light laser built in - house and directed it through several optical components to put a twist on the beam.

It is not only in hypothetical new computers that it's important to be able to control beams of radiation precisely with the newly developed light turning mechanism: terahertz radiation is used today for many purposes, for example for imaging methods in airport security technology.

Optical physicists have been using spiraling laser beams, in which light waves are twisted into vortices, for almost 30 years, says Jo Verbeeck, a materials scientist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and first author on the Nature paper.

Scientists can affect an animal's behavior using a technique called optogenetics: They beam light onto genetically modified neurons, stimulating the production of dopamine and rewarding the animal for specific actions.

Previous research has used the polarization of light to control the size and shape of these exotic beams but the connection was limited because only certain polarizations could convert to certain orbital momentums.

Using mental images of clocks and trains, light beams and speeding bicycles, Einstein realized that Newton's system could not be right because it contradicted Maxwell's theory of light.

So to create a wide, thin sheet of light, Betzig uses something called a Bessel beam.

The University of Portsmouth and NREL collaborated with scientists at the Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom, a synchrotron that uses intense beams of X-rays 10 billion times brighter than the sun to act as a microscope powerful enough to see individual atoms.

The researchers shined a very powerful X-ray beam — using a particle accelerator at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — onto the surface of the material then monitored the electrons as they were knocked out of the interior.

Bar - code scanners use Bessel beams because the pencil - like beam of light they produce is thin enough to read between the lines of a bar code; even so, scanner lasers are much thicker than the ones used by Betzig.

A synchrotron is an important tool for many fields, as it creates intense beams of light that are used to probe biological cells or materials.

Up to now, all plasmonic interferometers have required the use of highly specialized external light sources that can deliver coherent light — beams in which light waves are parallel, have the same wavelength, and travel in - phase (meaning the peaks and valleys of the waves are aligned).

SPIM uses a thin beam of light to illuminate only the single plane that is currently being imaged so the biological sample is not damaged by overexposure to light.

Rather than the light used in a traditional microscope, this technique uses focused beams of electrons to illuminate a sample and form images with atomic resolution.

Unlike conventional lasers, which use mirrors to amplify the light they create, free - electron lasers rely on a high - quality electron beam and an array of magnets.

The idea is that a video camera mounted on a pair of glasses picks up visual information and relays it to the photovoltaic implant using a beam of low - intensity infrared light.

Two beams of protons travelling at nearly the speed of light crashed together on Monday at 1322 GMT inside the ATLAS detector, one of the giant measuring devices the LHC will use to probe shrapnel from the collisions, according to CERN's announcement.

The researchers tested their metamaterial using a technique called four - wave mixing, in which three beams of light mix in a non-linear medium to create a fourth.