Sentences with phrase «using noninvasive»

Before Dr. Inman began using these noninvasive techniques, he was an accomplished veterinary surgeon and still consults in veterinary surgery.

«While this is promising, we have many steps to go to translate these discoveries from mice into a therapy for humans using this noninvasive technique,» Singer said during the press conference.

Using a noninvasive test on maternal blood that deploys a novel biochemical assay and a new algorithm for analysis, scientists...

He is a leading authority on virtual colonoscopy — using noninvasive CT technology to detect polyps and masses in the colon.

Using noninvasive cardiac magnetic resonance imaging techniques, they were able to confirm the presence of myocardial inflammation in a patient who tested positive for cardiac myosin autoantibodies.

More generally, she hopes to demonstrate the archaeological value of using noninvasive methods like lidar and high - resolution photography to explore sensitive areas — techniques that could be used at sites as diverse as the killing fields in Cambodia and World War II — era shooting trenches in Eastern Europe.

Clarke used a noninvasive technique at UT Austin's High - Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility, an NSF - funded multi-user facility, to create a 3 - D, computed tomographic image of the V. iaai fossil.

A study, published today in Science Advances, found that when scientists used noninvasive brain stimulation to disrupt a brain region called the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), people appeared less able to see things from the point of view of their future selves or of another person, and consequently were less likely to share money with others and more inclined to opt for immediate cash instead of waiting for a larger bounty at a later date.

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

«We studied asymptomatic individuals with a low risk of cardiovascular events at baseline and used noninvasive imaging to predict the risk of an event downstream,» said David A. Bluemke, M.D, Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. «This is the first population - based prospective study to determine if vulnerable plaque features by MRI add to the risk of a cardiovascular event beyond the traditional risk factors.»

In the 2013 experiment, the UW team used noninvasive technology to send a person's brain signals over the Internet to control the hand motions of another person.

They also use noninvasive imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), to study the development and functioning of the primate brain

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Noninvasive medical - testing equipment — the real - life versions of the scanning devices used by «Star Trek» medics — will probably be a focus of the fund.

It actually induces sleep using natural, noninvasive technology.

The discoveries were revealed using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) and other noninvasive imaging techniques, according to panel of experts during a Feb. 17 news briefing at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting.

CyberKnife and other noninvasive radiosurgery systems are producing ever more accurate energy beams, raising the possibility of extending the use of potentially lethal radiation to fight Parkinson's, epilepsy and other afflictions

A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low - intensity electrical currents.

I think direct stimulation of the sensory cortex is going to be used sooner or later, but I particularly like the idea of noninvasive devices, like sensors on the tongue.

Although it may be years in development, Friedmann envisions a noninvasive imaging device akin to an X-ray that detects bits and pieces of leftover viruses used to introduce performance - enhancing genes.

Using «freshman physics,» neuroscientists have deployed electric fields to stimulate neurons buried deep in the brains of mice — a method that could one day lead to noninvasive therapies for people with Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.

For example, researchers can now see if body odor reflects other conditions, says Craig Roberts, a biologist at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom: «It's important because it might help with noninvasive diagnosis of disease and potentially for biometric technology using genetically unique and distinct odors.»

The use of nuclear imaging enables the researchers to monitor expansion of the corrected cells through a noninvasive imaging process.

Called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), the noninvasive technique uses electromagnets to create localized electrical currents in the brain.

Madhavan said they use use noninvasive tools, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, to compare the excitability of the affected and unaffected areas of the brain.

Egner and Chiu tested this hypothesis by scanning the brains of participants, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI, a noninvasive, indirect measure of brain activity) as they completed the tasks.

But new molecular imaging, which can be used to complement the biopsy and is noninvasive, can provide added benefit in certain cases, especially when multiple examinations are needed.

Svejcar and his colleagues at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center hope to develop a model where noninvasive plants — those that do not reproduce prolifically and take over an area — can be used to counter invasive weeds.

Optical imaging methods are rapidly becoming essential tools in biomedical science because they're noninvasive, fast, cost - efficient and pose no health risks since they don't use ionizing radiation.

«They've made the first comparative study using nonhuman primates of the cerebral processing of voices, and they've done it with a noninvasive technique by training dogs to lie in a scanner.»

This noninvasive system for leg muscle stimulation is a promising method and is an advance of our current brain - controlled systems that use virtual reality or a robotic exoskeleton.»

Although it may be years yet in development, Friedmann envisions a noninvasive imaging device akin to an X-ray that detects bits and pieces of leftover viruses used to introduce performance - enhancing genes.

A volunteer models the noninvasive, electrical stimulation device used to help patients with Parkinson's disease.

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 team is now working with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who hope to use the new, noninvasive technique to study cells involved in cancer, asthma, and other conditions in which cell properties change as a disease progresses.

A noninvasive jaundice screening tool is available in some hospitals and clinics, but the instrument costs several thousand dollars and isn't feasible for home use.

To test whether the hippocampus could actually form spatial maps using only visual landmarks, Mehta's team devised a noninvasive virtual reality environment and studied how the hippocampal neurons in the brains of rats reacted in the virtual world without the ability to use smells and sounds as cues.

In their new paper, Zhang and colleagues used an AI - based convolutional neural network to review more than 200,000 eye scans conducted with optical coherence tomography, a noninvasive technology that bounces light off the retina to create two - and three - dimensional representations of tissue.

The San Diego — based genetic diagnosis company Sequenom launched the first noninvasive prenatal screening for Down syndrome using Lo's technique last October.

Saying current noninvasive approaches for detection of urothelial cancer are suboptimal, researchers wanted to develop a test for bladder and UTUC cancer that would allow it to be found sooner and cheaper than current methods using cytology, which is not particularly sensitive and does not do well in detecting low - grade bladder cancer or UTUC.

Of 56 patients with upper tract urothelial cancer, 75 percent tested positive using UroSEEK, including 79 percent of those with noninvasive tumors.

Instead, biophysicist Fernando Montealegre - Z detected the structure while examining three - dimensional images of the insects» inner ears from high - powered CT scans — a noninvasive technique used to examine fossilized bones and other artifacts without causing damage.

«The in vivo tests using a live rabbit... provided the substantial promise of future smart contact lenses for noninvasive health care monitoring using human eyes and tears,» says the research team.

«Stool microbes predict advanced liver disease: Proof - of - concept study suggests a noninvasive test for specific microbial population patterns could be used to detect advanced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.»

Findings from mouse models suggest that eye examination could be used as a noninvasive screening tool for human brain diseases.

They measured sugar concentrations in the brains of the study participants using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a noninvasive neuroimaging technique.

«Although different types of brain stimulation are currently applied in different locations, we found that the targets used to treat the same disease are nodes in the same connected brain network,» says first author Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, an investigator in the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and in the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at BIDMC.

They used advanced noninvasive technologies such as high - resolution scanning and virtual unwrapping tools to read the document.

With recent developments in contrast agents and pulse sequences, some state - of - the - art techniques greatly improve the MR image quality by overcoming the time and spatial resolution limitations and have been used for noninvasive evaluation of hepatic steatosis and vascular and biliary anatomy.

The screening was conducted using Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA), a noninvasive imaging technology that accurately measures calcium deposits and plaque buildup in the arteries.

Their discovery could aid in the synthesis of new «radiotracers» — chemical compounds that contain a radioactive form, or isotope, of an element — for use with a noninvasive, high - resolution 3 - D medical imaging technology known as PET (positron emission tomography) scanning.