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...want to wish Jimi a happy birthday," Chris Wood told the audience at the Orpheum Friday night before he and bandmates Billy Martin and John Medeski launched into a blazing version of Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic." Belting out Jimi's funky lines on bass, drums, and organ, respectively, Medeski, Martin and Wood finished off a night that had been a whirlwind tour of jazz, funk, rock and pure abstract experimentalism...
...PATENTS Elihu Thomson Electrically operated pipe organ, cream separator, electric welding...
...tumor growth, and CT (computerized tomography) scanners, which show precise anatomical details, were already in widespread medical use. But doctors, especially cancer surgeons, were often frustrated in their attempts to match the two different scans to determine, for example, the precise location of a tumor in relation to an organ or to the spinal column. There seemed to be no better way than simply "eyeballing" the two separate images...
...chinless Uncle Ray. New 3-D Ultrasound, or Real-Time Volumetric Rendering, developed at Duke Medical Center, displays three-dimensional moving images rather than a mere cross section. Ultrasound will also help surgeons view the entire heart and its chambers, helping them navigate inside the organ during surgery...
Until quite recently, most cardiologists put little value on pictures of the heart. They assumed that it was impossible to get a truly accurate image of an organ in constant motion. But with improvement in the technology for snapping freeze-frames of the beating heart, physicians have started to rely more and more on images of the heart not just for looking at problem areas but also for predicting the likelihood of future heart trouble...