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The scan, called single-photon emission computerized tomography or SPECT, produces data about the level of perfusion, or blood flow inside the brain, which is rendered in colors from red and white to blue and grey.
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The scan, called single-photon emission computerized tomography or SPECT, produces data about the level of perfusion, or blood flow inside the brain, which is rendered in colors from red and white to blue and grey.
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To support high-speed operation, he employed a method known as free-space optical (FSO) communication, in which the single-photon signals are sent through the open air between transmitters and receivers using telescopes.
Discovering the encryption code for 100 percent secure, high-speed communication 2010
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While the quote from DS that he violates SLOT by writing a sentence is side-splittingly funny, a mere two posts later he sets another record for stupidity by claiming that building a single-photon calorimeter demonstrates that a single photon has a “temperature”.
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KEY: MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; SPECT, single-photon emission computed tomography; EEG, electroencephalogram.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Despite PET providing more accurate scans than single-photon emission computed tomography SPECT, which has been considered the industry-standard nuclear imaging modality, the company struggled to generate much in the way of revenue or gross profit due to SPECT's deeply entrenched share of the market and slow acceptance by healthcare providers which was exacerbated by unfavorable PET reimbursement policies.
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"Current single-photon sources are not very useful in terms of efficiency and quality," says Johann Reithmaier, the coordinator of QPHOTON.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Their discoveries bring practical single-photon and quantum applications significantly closer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able t ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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X-ray absorptiometry and measured bone mineral status of the forearm by using single-photon absorptiometry at 2, 13, and
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue Jarjou 2010
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