Words similar to tomography
Example sentences for: tomography
How can you use “tomography” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
As many as 30% of patients with breast cancer who have undergone curative surgery and show no evidence of locoregional or distant disease still have recurrent disease over 5-10 years [ 1 2 ] . Some of these treatment failures may be attributed to residual disease in the breast or axillary lymph nodes [ 3 ] . The limitation of routine histopathologic examination of the tumor margins and the dissected lymph node specimen is well known [ 4 ] . Contemporary methods of detection, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy and flow cytometry, all have limited sensitivity and specificity [ 5 6 ] . Micrometastases can be found by immunohistochemistry or polymerase chain reaction in 10-30% of the patients previously deemed free of disease by conventional histological methods [ 7 8 ] . The prognostic importance of micrometastases found with these sensitive methods are now being evaluated [ 9 10 11 ] .
For the first time, immunogold electron tomography permitted a quantitative demonstration of 3-D organellar protein labeling with antibodies.
In conclusion, we have combined the techniques of immunogold microscopy and electron tomography to determine visually and by statistical analysis that tBid is preferentially concentrated at contact sites rather than being randomly distributed along the outer membrane.
ang = angiopoietin; CEP = circulating endothelial precursor; FGF = fibroblast growth factor; FGF-1 = acidic fibroblast growth factor; FGF-2 = basic fibroblast growth factor; HIF-1α = hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha; SPECT = single photon emission computed tomography; VEGF = vascular endothelial growth factor.
Since the early 1990s, spiral computed tomography (CT) scanners have permitted assessment of the entire pulmonary parenchyma in a very short period of time [ 1, 2, 3].
Loading...