News tagged with magnetic tool
New views at the nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging, first developed in the early 1970s, has become a standard diagnostic tool for cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders, among others. MRI is ideally ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Old soles: 800-year-old shoe soles yield clues about preservation of leather
Ancient garbage can be like gold to archaeologists. During excavation of an 800-year-old trash dump in Lyon, France, scientists discovered the archaeological equivalent of golden shoe soles: A trove of leather soles of shoes, ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Use of less invasive, imaging-guided biopsies on the rise
Advanced imaging technologies have helped shift biopsy techniques away from more invasive approaches toward imaging-guided percutaneous -- or through the skin -- techniques, according to a new study appearing online and in ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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New technique boosts protein NMR imaging speeds
Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, or SSNMR, is a valuable tool to image and analyze the chemical makeup of proteins and other biomolecules. But the imaging process is time-consuming and requires large amounts of costly ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 09, 2009 |
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MRI: Non-invasive diagnostic tool for diagnosing testicular cancer
Researchers have found that non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a good diagnostic tool for the evaluation and staging of testicular cancer and may improve patient care by sparing some men unnecessary surgery, ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Cool product: $20 artificial knee for patients in the developing world
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last year Joel Sadler and his classmates faced a daunting challenge in their Biomedical Device Design and Evaluation course: Create a low-cost, high-performance prosthetic knee joint for amputees ...
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Noninvasive screening test may detect narrowing in intracranial stents
Great advances have been made in treating blockages in the arteries of the brain using angioplasty to widen the narrowed artery and a stent to hold the artery open. However, in-stent stenosis, or a re-blockage of the artery ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 11, 2009 |
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