News tagged with scanner images

NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over the center of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 2:34 EDT on September 17, 2009 and captured heavy rainfall around ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can brain scans read your mind? Neuroscientists provides new insights

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell" -- Gordon Lightfoot

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Childhood adversity may affect processing in the brain's reward pathways

New research shows that childhood adversity is associated with diminished neural activity in brain regions implicated in the anticipation of possible rewards.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

See your photos in 3D on new website

(PhysOrg.com) -- You could turn your holiday snaps or favourite figurines into three-dimensional images with new free software developed by a researcher from Queensland University of Technology and the Australasian ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 7

Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone

Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

The brain 'joins the dots' when drawing a cartoon face from memory

In a study by Miall, Gowen and Tchalenko published by Elsevier, in the March issue of Cortex, a brain scanner was used to record the brain's activity in each stage of the process of drawing faces. The researchers found that t ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fattysaurus or thinnysaurus? How dinosaurs measure up with laser imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester scientists are using laser imaging to investigate how fat - or fit - T. rex and his fellow dinosaurs were. Karl Bates and his colleagues in the palaeontology and biomechanics resea ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0