Sentences with phrase «while imaging scans»

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The researchers used an ultrastable, variable - temperature stage in an aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscope to subject an array of size - selected gold nanoparticles (or clusters) to temperatures as high as 500 °C while imaging them with atomic resolution.

The next morning, study participants were tested again on the word pairs, this time while undergoing functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans.

Using data from National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), lead author Kristina Denisova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC and Fellow at the Sackler Institute, studied 71 high and low risk infants who underwent two functional Magnetic Resonance imaging brain scans either at 1 - 2 months or at 9 - 10 months: one during a resting period of sleep and a second while native language was presented to the infants.

And, CT imaging comes with a radiation exposure that itself carries risks, while MRI scans are more costly and have a higher chance of finding things that turn out to be of no concern.

The catalytic action of individual Ni atoms at the edges of a growing graphene flake was directly captured by scanning tunneling microscopy imaging at the millisecond time scale, while force field molecular dynamics and density functional theory calculations rationalize the experimental observations.

When he and a control subject, another sensation - seeking rock climber, viewed gruesome, high - arousal photographs during functional magnetic resonance imaging brain scans, Honnold's amygdala ─ the brain's fear center ─ showed zero activation while the other climber's lit up like a neon sign.

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.

In a 2005 Harvard University functional imaging study of working memory — that short - term memory we use to carry on conversations or remember telephone numbers — a group of volunteers were given verbal attention tasks while inside the scanning machine.

Then, using magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers scanned the teenagers» brains while they performed verbal tasks, such as reading or naming objects, and nonverbal tasks, such as solving visual puzzles with their hands.

The researchers then used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan 21 of the participants» brains while they viewed pairs of short film clips showing classmates of varying status within this social network, telling them all they needed to do was indicate whether the clips in each pair were the same or different, and that this task was unrelated to the first part of the experiment.

Researchers then scanned the brains of volunteers with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while showing them 32 of the face cards; with half of them, subjects were instructed to consciously think about the associated harrowing counterpart and with the other half, they were instructed to consciously suppress their thoughts about it.

First, Vanduffel's team scanned the two monkeys» brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging while they followed a green dot on a computer screen.

During this test, the subjects were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure their brain activity while carrying out the task.

The storm - chasing aircraft's new scatterometer — a microwave radar sensor that measures the reflection (or scattering effect) produced while scanning the surface of the Earth — can see inside the storm with high resolution, something akin to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.

While these imaging procedures, including fluoroscopically guided procedures such as cardiac catheterization, computed tomography scans, and nuclear medicine studies, are critical for accurate diagnosis and intervention, ionizing radiation in high doses can be harmful.

The research, a 3 - way collaboration between Birmingham, Swansea and Genoa, used an ultrastable, variable - temperature stage in an aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscope to subject an array of size - selected Au nanoparticles (or clusters) to temperatures as high as 500 °C while imaging them with atomic resolution.

Each individual had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a method of brain scanning which measures activity in several areas of the brain by blood flow, while playing a card game designed to stimulate reward feelings.

Before and after the four - week study, participants» underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, both while in a state of rest, and in response to an «emotion - recognition task.»

While advanced modes of imaging such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scanning are not available to most veterinary hospitals, plain radiography usually is.

While advanced modes of imaging such as MRI and CT scanning are not available to most veterinary hospitals, plain radiography usually is.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans to compare the brain activity of 19 people with compulsive sexual behaviors to that of the same number of healthy subjects while both groups watched pornography.