Word: scans
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Some undergraduates make five dollars by playing computer games for half an hour. Others earn 20 dollars by sitting in a room alone. And then there are those who earn the princely sum of 50 dollars for letting researchers scan an image of their brain...
...start to see the horizon getting closer when you get to your late 50s," he explains. He has a writing cabin about a thousand yards from the Keene house. He will hike there each morning at 8. And from this outpost, six or seven days a week, he will scan the horizon...
While his work focused primarily on SPECT, some of Dr. Holman's most ground-breaking research came in 1987 when he used X-ray and CAT-scan imaging to analyze the bodies of several Egyptian mummies...
CLEAR CUT Some 20% of appendectomies turn out to be unnecessary--and patients wind up with a healthy appendix removed. But a study finds that a high-speed C.T. scan can now determine with 98% accuracy when true appendicitis is present--and when...
...Moscow reported that Boris Yeltsin was undergoing a normal follow-up to his 1996 heart-bypass surgery. In fact, he underwent a sophisticated new heart scan called a C.T.-angiography, a painless, noninvasive test that is less risky than a conventional angiogram and that can be performed only with a scanner created by Imatron, a San Francisco-based company. Radiologists at the Moscow Cardiology Center had just begun learning to use the machine when Imatron began getting E-mails from them: they wanted to use the scanner--which can tell if a bypass graft has closed up--on Yeltsin. Imatron...