News tagged with scanner images
Two Retinal Imaging Display Devices at Prototype Stage
(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC and Brother are both developing wearable prototype devices that use Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology to project images directly on the wearer's retina. NEC's gadget is designed ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 30, 2009 |
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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
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Scans show learning 'sculpts' the brain's connections
Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 09, 2009 |
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The network in our heads: What our brains have in common with the internet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our brain works as a set of networks - much like the internet. Could our understanding of the internet help us in understanding our brains? Gabriele Lohmann and her colleagues from the Max ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2010 |
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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, ...
Apr 21, 2009 |
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After foiled US plane attack, scanners revisited
As US lawmakers demand to know how a would-be attacker smuggled explosives aboard a plane on Christmas Day, the use of body scanners at airport security points is likely to be revisited.
Dec 29, 2009 |
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Spider's double beating heart revealed by MRI
Researchers have used a specialised Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner on tarantulas for the first time, giving unprecedented videos of a tarantula's heart beating.
Jul 01, 2011 |
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Groundbreaking portable PET scanner moves closer to market, medical applications
SynchroPET, a Long Island startup company, has entered into an option agreement to commercialize a new small-scale, portable brain-imaging device invented by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease
In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 16, 2009 |
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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
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Scientists create faster, more sensitive photodetector by tricking graphene
(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials of the University of Maryland have developed a new type of hot electron bolometer a sensitive detector of infrared light, that ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
17 hours ago |
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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
Jul 23, 2009 |
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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
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Hunt for bird mummy in Conn. comes up empty
(AP) -- Researchers who examined an Egyptian mummy with the latest imaging technology found no evidence that a packet inside her was an offering to the gods of the ancient world.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 17, 2010 |
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TRMM satellite sees deadly tornadic thunderstorms in Southeastern US
Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2011 |
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