News tagged with ultrasound imaging
Elastography reduces unnecessary breast biopsies
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Elastography is an effective, convenient technique that, when added to breast ultrasound, helps distinguish cancerous breast lesions from benign results, according to an ongoing study presented today at the annual meeting ...
Longer toes eyed as sprinters' edge
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Longer toes may give sprinters a leg up on other runners, according to a new study.
Graphics chips speed up medical imaging
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Beyond just jazzing up video games, one of the growing array of applications being found for the powerful graphics-oriented chips that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices sell is in speeding up medical imaging, which can be ...
Classifying 'clicks'
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages.
A rush of blood to the head -- anger increases blood flow
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Mental stress causes carotid artery dilation and increases brain blood flow. A series of ultrasound experiments, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Cardiovascular Ultrasound, also found that this dilatory reflex ...
