Sentences with phrase «with imaging scans»

Of 10 men whose metastatic cancers could be measured with imaging scans, five experienced tumor shrinkage by more than half, including one man whose cancer completely disappeared.

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Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of 21 undergraduate students all tasked with reading the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris.

Atalasoft, a document imaging company partnered with the digital publisher Software Development Times to release the white paper Scanning on the Web.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

Currently, no role exists for computed tomography scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultrasonography in the routine evaluation of patients with reflux disease.

Even if a scan shows abnormal activity in a brain region associated with impulse control or regulation of emotions, such imaging provides no more than probabilistic information, Hyman said.

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.

She elaborates, «In the study, these patients underwent imaging with a PSMA PET scan and had treatment based on the results of the scan findings.

At the moment the only way to accurately measure amyloid in a living person is either via costly positron emission tomography imaging (PET scan) or by sampling cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap.

Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people with schizophrenia against brain scans from people with no psychiatric diagnoses.

The researchers then analyzed various characteristics of the imaging scans from 208 people in a subgroup: 107 of the people with successful ablations compared to 101 of those with failed ablations.

And even if the patient doesn't meet the conditions that guidelines say can benefit most from brain imaging — for instance, someone with an abnormal neurological exam or a known cancer — doctors might order a scan at a patient's request to protect themselves legally.

The video also displays a virtual colonoscopy, which scans the intestines with sophisticated, noninvasive imaging tools.

For this research, a total of 28 subjects were imaged with a variety of imaging modalities, including standard imaging with computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and molecular bone scan (SI); PET with a common radiotracer called fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG - PET); and PET with computed tomography and the agent Zr - 89 IAB2M (IAB2M PET / CT) assessed in escalated doses.

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.

Smith says her group is investigating whether PET imaging of serotonin could be a marker to detect progression of disease, whether alone or in conjunction with scans that detect the clumping protein known as amyloid that accumulates in the brains of those with Alzheimer's disease.

Meanwhile, the researchers scanned participants» brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging, paying close attention to activity in several areas of the brain.

The researchers verified the structure of the nitrogenated crystal by atomic - resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy imaging and confirmed its semiconducting nature by testing it with a field effect transistor.

The scans — done with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI — show which sections of the five brains became more active during the ads, thereby revealing what's really going on in people's heads.

Pancreatic cysts are common, and today's high - definition scanning technologies like MRI and CT imaging are detecting them with increasing frequency.

Compared with other imaging techniques, PET scans are relatively cheap and easy to perform, and are routinely used to survey for cancer, heart problems, and other diseases.

The forensic imaging team, working with the Forensic Pathology Unit and the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester, used whole body CT scans and micro-CT imaging of injured bones to analyse trauma to the 500 - year - old skeleton carefully, and to determine which of the King's wounds might have proved fatal.

Intra-ventricular flow imaging is currently done with MRI scans, which is expensive and not suitable for patients with implanted devices such as pacemakers.

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.

Doctors currently rely on external ultrasound probes combined with pre-operative imaging scans to visualise soft tissue and organs during keyhole procedures as the miniature surgical instruments used do not support internal ultrasound imaging.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans showed that use of the Nintendo Wii Balance Board system appears to induce favorable changes in brain connections associated with balance and movement.

This hypothesis is supported by several observations so we decided to test it by scanning the brains of individuals of varying age with functional magnetic resonance imaging and analysing the data both with fApEn and SampEn.»

The study used state - of - the - art imaging scans with positron emission tomography, which measures blood flow to the heart muscle and identifies areas of reduced blood flow, at rest and following stress.

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.

To quantify synapses throughout the brain, professor of radiology and biomedical imaging Richard Carson and his coauthors combined PET scanning technology with biochemistry.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

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).

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.

Intravital two - photon bone imaging is superior compared with conventional analyses of the shape and form of a tissue because it enables two - dimensional scanning in bone in a focal plane to observe cell shapes and the appearance of mOBs and mOCs in the body.

The incidence of kidney cancer in the United States has been increasing for two decades, with the trend partly attributed to the introduction of abdominal imaging studies such as CT scans or MRIs in the 1980's.

First, they scanned the nasal airway of a mixed - breed cadaver with high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging.

Imaging scans show decreases in brain connectivity before (orange) and after (blue) treatment with ECT.

«In people, the disorder is diagnosed using visualization of the retina within the patient's eye with ophthalmoscopy or imaging with a MRI scan.

Beauchamp and Nath followed up on that study with a new one in which they scanned people's brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as they played McGurk videos of mismatched sounds and lip movements.

Imaging scans showed he had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke, with bleeding directly into the substance of the brain.

When they compared magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans taken before and after for both groups, they found that auditory and motor areas of the brain linked respectively with hearing and dexterity grew larger only in the trainee musicians.

This will put X-ray imaging on par with the quality achieved with scanning electron microscopes, that typically have a resolution of 4 nm.

Imaging results often provided critical information, such as when physicians changed the management plan for a patient with a substance - abuse - related lumbar spine infection after CT scans showed the involved nerves.

CTA is a CT scan that uses fast imaging with intravenous dye to show blockages of the coronary arteries.

Health care providers can monitor bone health of pediatric patients by ensuring that they maintain a healthy body weight, are engaging in weight bearing exercise and have adequate nutritional intake of calcium and vitamin D. Routine imaging with DXA scans is not recommended at this time, she noted.

The participants disclosed with whom of the two characters they had a closer identification and were asked a series of questions about that person — and themselves — as their brains were scanned by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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

Radiologist Shumei Li from Guangdong No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital in Guangzhou, China, and her team, scanned the brains of 30 healthy sleepers and 23 people with severe insomnia using diffusion tensor imaging MRI.

By scanning his subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Ehrsson found the illusion involves interconnected areas of the brain, including the premotor cortex in the frontal lobe (responsible for sensory guidance of movement) and the intraparietal cortex in the parietal lobe (involved in locating and recognizing body parts).

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