Ultrasound senses 'feel' of breast lesions
... and to detect the resulting effects on tissues. A computer converts the reflections from the tissue into images. Of the two kinds of ultrasound pulses, "tracking" beams are used to monitor motion created by the second kind -- high-energy "pushing" beams. The pushing beams actually displace tissue by tran...Medical microspheres provide precision-release drug delivery
...niversity of Illinois, professor of electrical and computer engineering Kyekyoon (Kevin) Kim, professor of chemical engineering Daniel Pack, and graduate student Cory Berkland have developed a method for making drug-encapsulated, biodegradable polymer microspheres that provides precise control over sphere siz...University of Pittsburgh transplant researchers present findings at international meeting
...ional information about arterial blood pressure, a computer then calculates the heart's strength as a "power value." Patients are selected for possible weaning when tests yield specific values indicating the heart is showing signs of recovery. "Quantitative echocardiography is noninvasive and can be done on a...Kaleidescope eyes: the secrets of a novel gift
...even able to match most of the shades she saw on a computer paint program. "Much of the research on synaesthesia is anecdotal and has relied on self-report. All perceptual experiences are subjective, which poses a challenge for the study of synaesthesia." Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the team recorded b...... blood vessel network of a real liver and using 3D computer modelling and machining to mimic its construction....numbers into software that built a 3D fractal-like computer model of a liver's blood supply. When they simulated blood flowing through the "liver", it had the s...Yale study reinforces theory that babies count
...e months of age, were tested while seated before a computer screen. During the first phase, known as the habitation phase, Wynn and Bloom repeatedly presented half the babies with two groups of three objects each and half with four groups of three objects each. The objects were red, filled-in circles about th...Electricity can pump medicine in implanted medical devices
...te University have developed a computer model to help tiny medical implants ...e engineers have developed the first comprehensive computer model to address electrically driven fluids in channels. Conlisk worked with Der...Human papilloma virus test increases cancer detection rate, study finds
...urnal of the American Medical Association. Using a computer model to simulate a large population of women 20 and older, the researchers evaluated the effectiveness of screening women with a combination of screening strategieswith both the HPV and Pap tests, with the Pap smear alone, or with only the HPV test....Brain-imaging cap under study for space and Earth use
...roblem in space." The group is also developing the computer systems that would allow automated interpretation of data from the imaging cap. This function would be necessary in space to avoid lost time transmitting data to Earth for evaluation and also would be beneficial for Earth-based use in physician's cli...Eisenhower Mem. 1st CA hospital to use Bridge barcode system to prevent medication errors
...utomation, barcoding helps acclimate our nurses to computer use at the point of care and provides an affordable solution that will have maximum impact on patient safety. Safe Patients Mean Safe Nurses Eisenhower has a history of staying ahead of safety and quality directives while other hospitals struggle to ...New wireless imaging test identified the cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in majority of patients
... in the morning and the images are downloaded to a computer where they can be read six to eight hours later. In the study, the investigators examined the imaging studies of 37 patients with undiagnosed GI bleeding who had undergone an imaging test with the video capsule. Of these, the investigators identif...Research explains possible origin of Parkinson's tremors
...When researchers constructed a computer model of electrochemical activ...remor, Terman explained. "Our computer model shows that the pattern of the signals is important, too -- not just the fr...New hearing test simulates noise of real world
...take Litovsky's test, or "game," sit in front of a computer surrounded by a semicircle of loudspeakers. They listen for words that match pictures on the screen. Sometimes, they might hear only one voice asking them to point to a particular object. Other times, they might hear several voices coming from either...Mentally fatigued persons switch to automatic pilot
...ubjects had to change the layout of a table in the computer programme Excel. The persons had never previously ...out the task. Their actions were registered by the computer and recorded on video. Prior to the test, half of the trial subjects were made mentally tired. They...MRI brain scan may detect Alzheimer's disease decades before first symptoms
... volume of the hippocampus was measured with a new computer program that reduces the time required to compute this volume from more than a half hour to a couple of minutes. Previous methods required tracing of this structure by hand, which restricted its application to research studies. The findings suggest ...Students invent voice-activated grasping tool for disabled man
...d-wired to a control box that contains a miniature computer and two programs that turn the voice commands into signals that tell the motors how to operate the bending and grasping motions. The unit is powered by a rechargeable 12-volt lead-acid battery commonly used for remote-control model boats and airplane......lectrical and chemical engineers, biochemists, and computer specialists, as well as neurobiologists and cognitive neuroscientists. Why these latter? Because Moshfegh sees the similarities and parallels between the way our brains convert decision to intent to action not neuron by neuron, but only as a coor...Screening families with a history of high cholesterol is most cost effective way to cut heart deaths
... event by the age of 50 (men) or 60 (women). Using computer modelling, the research team assessed the costs and benefits of different screening strategies in the UK. They found that screening family members of people with familial hypercholesterolaemia was the most cost effective way of detecting cases across...'Cheerleader' brain signal may act as a task master, Science study suggests
...bar in response seeing certain colored shapes on a computer screen. A colored bar across the top of the screen brightened each time the monkey moved to the next task, indicating that it was nearing the reward. The monkeys made progressively fewer errors as they approached the juice finale. When the brightness......new study suggests that cancer risk counselors and computer models have similar sensitivity when it comes to i... cancer risk counselors; however, more recently, a computer model has been developed for this purpose. In this study, David M. Euhus, M.D., of the University o...