KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
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...searchers from the University of Colorado prepared digital images from two cadavers: a 39-year-old male and a 59-year-old female. Several electronic imaging techniques were used on the bodies, including electronic color photographs of thousands of razor-thin tissue cross-sections. The resulting datasets are ...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
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