News tagged with ct
Mini-CT scanner developed as a teaching tool
Biophysics professors at Western University, in London, Canada, have developed a CT (Computed Tomography) scanner small enough to sit on a desk. Jerry Battista, Chair of the Department of Medical Biophysics ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Researcher uses medical imaging technology to better understand fish senses
University of Rhode Island marine biologist Jacqueline Webb gets an occasional strange look when she brings fish to the Orthopedics Research Lab at Rhode Island Hospital. While the facility's microCT scanner is typically ...
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Bismuth nanoparticles provide high fidelity images of breast tumors
By combining a nanoparticle that is readily visible in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans with a molecule that targets tumor lymph vessels and other tumor tissues, a research team from the University of California, San ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Researchers use CT to recreate Stradivarius violin
Using computed tomography (CT) imaging and advanced manufacturing techniques, a team of experts has created a reproduction of a 1704 Stradivarius violin. Three-dimensional images of the valuable violin and details on how ...
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Hospital tests reveal the secrets of an Egyptian mummy
An ancient Egyptian mummy has had quite an afterlife, traveling more than 6,000 miles, spending six decades in private hands, and finally, in 1989, finding a home at the World Heritage Museum (now the Spurlock ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 02, 2011 |
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CT scanning shows how ants build without an architect
Ant nests are some of the most remarkable structures in nature. Their relative size is rivalled only by our own skyscrapers but there is no architect or blueprint. Instead they are built collectively, ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Researchers seek to understand the complexity of crumpled paper balls
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes the simplest of things become complicated and complex when looked at more closely. Gravity is but one example. Another is the mechanics involved in creating a crumpled ball from ...
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Seeing the effects of rock heterogeneity on CO2 movement
All three DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory X-ray CT scanners were recently used to characterize flow patterns during CO2 flooding of a sandstone sample from China. This work was part of a U.S.- ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 12, 2011 |
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New scanner takes images inside and out
From fossilized brachiopods, fish lungs and iPhones to mouse hearts and habanero chilies, Cornell's micro-CT (computer tomography) scanner provides spectacular and colorful 3-D datasets from the inside out.
May 24, 2011 |
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Applying particle physics expertise to cancer therapy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are working with medical researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center to develop a new imaging technology to guide proton therapy ...
May 13, 2011 |
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Scan of mummified remains indicates female was a teen at time of death
The mummy is indeed a lady - one who didn't make it to adulthood.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 02, 2011 |
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CT scans of Egyptian mummy help Vt. solve crimes
A childhood fascination with archaeology and a chance encounter with a 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy are helping Vermont doctors and law enforcement officials find truth in some of the most challenging of ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
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The mummy study returns: Scanning of more ancient Egyptians confirms heart disease, finds princess to be oldest case
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although ancient Egyptian royalty didn’t gobble down bacon cheeseburgers or doughnuts dripping with trans fats, smoke cigarettes or spend hours each night in front of the TV, they did ...
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Apr 06, 2011 |
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Seeing rice with X-rays may improve crop yields
Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the patients in a novel use ...
Apr 06, 2011 |
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Emergency department CT exams of children have increased substantially
Computed tomography examinations of children in hospital emergency departments increased substantially from 1995 to 2008, according to a new study published online and in the June print edition of Radiology. Researchers said t ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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