National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...s, numerical algorithms, computational science and visualization tools, laboratory experiments, and techniques and ... techniques to link supercomputer simulations with visualization utilities and a suite of analysis tools. The assembly of these tools will form the Digital Material...Biochemical Marker Targets Brain Injury Leading To Movement Problems After Stroke
... combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a visualization method fordetecting clots or blockages in the brain that trigger most strokes, MRSprovides scientists with a panoramic, interactive view of both site and functionwithin the nervous system," says lead researcher Sarah T. Pendlebury, MRCP, atthe Centre...'Super' aspirin and clot buster drug may help heart attack victims avoid surgery
...f alteplase. Each patient received an angiogram, a visualization of the blood vessels thatuses X-rays to determine how quickly the drugs dissolved blood clots in thevessel. The study examined the ability of the drugs to dissolve blood clotswithin 60 and 90 minutes. The study showed that 72 percent of heart attac...AAPS Symposium to present latest developments in Cheminformatics
...ling and diversity metrics 61623: Data mining and visualization techniques 61623: Links to large molecule systems (protein and bioinformatics) 61623: New tools for other related information such as reactions, natural products and images For more information on this symposium, including a complete preliminarypro...Robotic technology to help Ohio State University heart surgeons
... new technologies -- computer-enhanced visualization and advanced articulated robotics -- to reduce the trauma to patients during heart surgery which, inturn, should speed their healing. In c...Scientists can now see sense of smell
...li,"Katz said. Katz believes the olfactory visualization system offers high promise instudying the machinery of the learning process. "In rodents, the olfactory system is the sensory system of choice, andwe believe we can see the early stages of learning at the olfactory bulb level.Since our system...OSU Medical Center uses robotic heart surgery technique
... surgery. "The visualization of the surgical area is tremendous with very good clarity and magnification," said Michler. "The hand controls are also very precise with every movement being exactly replicat...MRI breakthroughs could lead to new tests for heart disease
...lmostimmediately. "This faster imaging and visualization is what makes it possible to do astress test with MRI," said Hundley. With both ultrasound and MRI, the aim is to view the heart duringvigorous pumping. Patients are given drugs to speed up their hearts so they beatat close to capacity. No...New medical system for colon cancer screening
...(CT) scan of the patients abdomen is taken. Volume visualization is then used to virtually navigate within an autom...ng and significantly reducing false positives. The visualization software, running on a PC, allows physicians to interactively navigate through the colon. An intuiti...Emory scientists present alternative for surgical biventricular resynchronization
...mera and small grasping tool are inserted to allow visualization and connection of the lead to the heart. "The advantages to this approach include no exposure to ionizing radiation through x-rays, and no exposure to dye -- which can damage the kidneys," says Dr. Lattouf. "Currently, we offer this technique to pa...Premenopausal breast cancer linked with place of birth, residence at time of menarche
...ombine geographic information systems, mapping and visualization with epidemiology to help identify patterns of disease." Finding clustering of cancer patients based on where they were born and lived during early life is significant, said Peter Rogerson, Ph.D., UB professor of geography and a study co-author. "If......gel when the car drove over bumps or potholes. The visualization facility helped the scientists see that it is the polymer's oxygen atoms, not the hydrogen atoms as previously thought, that attach to the clay. The team's theoretical calculations also showed that water binds to the clay surfaces in a perpendicular ...Robotic surgery for young heart patients shortens hospital stay and speeds recovery, study indicates
...the patient's chest through small incisions, and a visualization and guidance station where the surgeon can manipulate the robot arms using three-dimensional images from the camera inside the patient. The Congenital Heart Center surgeons share the robot with numerous other adult and pediatric surgeons at UMHS, fr...Standardizing disaster models to help first responders
...ability standards for all modeling, simulation and visualization tools. Finally, NIST supports creation of an electronic "Emergency Response Framework" for such standardized programs. The framework would present state, local and national level decision-makers with a comprehensive menu of easily accessible modeling...How cancer neutralizes T cell attack
...echnologies will need to be developed which enable visualization of immune effectors by noninvasive means in cancer patients. We're still some way from winning the war, but if we can neutralize the tumor's response to immunological attack we may have one less battle to contend with on the road to victory....Short course of Tibetan yoga improved sleep in cancer patients
...d simple with an emphasis on controlled breathing, visualization and mindfulness techniques, "we believe this form of yoga may be particularly useful for patients undergoing and recovering from chemotherapy," he says. In the study, 39 patients were randomized either to yoga or to a wait-list. There was an even dis...$5 million NIH contract to fund development of pediatric heart assist device
...n fluid mechanics applied to heart valves and flow visualization methods; James P. Runt, Ph.D., of the Materials Research Institute at Penn State, who will be responsible for mechanical properties testing of the blood sac polymers as well as providing general expertise in polymer chemistry, bulk properties and sur...NSF, AAAS announce winners of 2004 Visualization contest
...ors announced the rules and deadlines for the 2005 visualization challenge, which may be found at the SEVC Web site along with a list of frequently asked questions. NSF and Science will appoint judges to choose winners in each of five categories: photographs, illustrations, graphics, interactive media and non-inte...High blood pressure related decline in cognitive function affects adults young and old
...and object assembly. As a group, the tests require visualization and organization skills and the ability to solve novel problems under time constraints. Other studies have related high blood pressure to cognitive decline but have not compared younger and older individuals and have not measured cognitive performan...UCI's Brain Imaging Center chosen to help advance nation's Roadmap for Medical Research
...Smyth), statistics (Stern) and virtual reality and visualization (Falco Kuester, engineering researcher) from UCI and geneticists from the University of Toronto (Drs. James Kennedy and Fabio Macciardi) will integrate brain imaging data with the genetic information revealed by the human genome project to understand...