Search results for journal of synchrotron radiation:
Synchrotron light unveils oil in ancient Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan
Apr 22, 2008 |
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The world was in shock when in 2001 the Talibans destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from ...
Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to ...
Radiologists find a technique to significantly reduce patient radiation dose during CT angiography
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Radiologists have discovered that prospective electrocardiogram (ECG) gating allows them to significantly reduce the patient radiation dose delivered during computed tomography (CT) angiography, a common noninvasive technique ...
A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...
X-Rays for Early Alzheimer's Disease Detection
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new, highly detailed x-ray imaging technique that could be developed into a method for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s ...
IGRT may improve outcomes for obese prostate cancer patients
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Moderately to severely obese prostate cancer patients may have improved treatment outcomes when treated with image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) over traditional external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) because IGRT corrects ...
Under Observation -- Restless Atoms Cause Materials to Age
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Atoms have the habit of jumping through solids - a practice that physicists have recently been able to follow for the first time using a brand new method. This scientific advance was made ...
New Finding Opens Path for Designing Novel Complex Oxide Nanomaterials
Oct 11, 2007 |
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A University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues have found a novel way to "look" at atomic orbitals, and have directly shown for the first time that they change substantially when interacting at the ...
PSA value at 2 years post-treatment can predict long-term survival in prostate cancer patients
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Prostate cancer patients who have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value of less than or equal to 1.5 at two years after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) are less likely to have a cancer recurrence and cancer-related ...
A miniature synchrotron for your home lab
Jan 07, 2009 |
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In 2004 Lyncean Technologies announced the construction of the Compact Light Source (CLS), a miniature synchrotron which uses inverse Compton scattering to produce high-intensity, tunable, near-monochromatic ...
Most radiation oncologists utilize advanced medical imaging techniques, study suggests
Nov 25, 2009 |
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A recent study shows that 95 percent of radiation oncologists use advanced imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and 4-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) ...
Freezing: a phenomenon that 'jumps'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The freezing of suspensions of particles is not always a uniform phenomenon; in certain conditions it leads to a modification of the redistribution of particles and the growth of crystals.
Evidence for ultra-energetic particles in jet from black hole
Jun 20, 2006 |
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An international team of astronomers led by researchers at Yale has obtained key infrared observations that reveal the nature of quasar particle jets that originate just outside super-massive black holes at ...
Research Reveals Insight into Stability of Thin Films
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Jan 31, 2006 |
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Just as every snowflake is different from any other, an individual snowball exhibits exceptionally different properties than the thousands of snowflakes that make it up. A group led by Dr. Tai-Chang Chiang ...
Scientists spot sneaky 'neurodegenerative' iron at the European synchrotron
Oct 10, 2007 |
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Scientists suspect that iron accumulation plays a role in neurodegenerative processes such as Parkinson’s disease, but its distribution in neurons has never been observed because of the lack of techniques ...
