Dr. Kuhl says the technology is noninvasive and silent, making it ideal for working with babies.
Many cardiologists say noninvasive ways of scanning arteries would be far more useful.
When she heard of a patient trial for a new, noninvasive treatment promising to reduce wrinkles, she signed up.
The cancer is noninvasive, which means it originally doesn't spread out of the milk duct to other parts of the breast.
Navratilova said she has a noninvasive form of the cancer, called ductal carcinoma in situ, that was detected during a mammogram.
Stanford's Dr. Quake said he started thinking about the need for noninvasive tests when his wife was pregnant with their first child.
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The current crop of noninvasive tests grew out of a discovery made in the late 1990s by Dr. Lo at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Researchers are also developing noninvasive screening tests for adult ailments.
By bombarding the fossils with an infrared synchrotron beam a noninvasive way of analyzing a material's internal chemistry the scientists said they detected molecular traces of an organic protein inside the mineralized bones.
"Instead of putting them through radiation, PET scans and CT scans, which are very expensive and potentially harmful, we are now looking at noninvasive tests that do the same job, " Topol said.
McDonald was also the third physician in the world to perform a procedure called conductive keratoplasty -- a noninvasive surgery for farsightedness that involves using radio-frequency energy to heat small spots around the cornea.
The subjects were randomized into five groups and received a mild, noninvasive electrical current, via a cap and electrodes, running either to or away from the part of the cerebellum that controlled either the faster or slower leg.
Patsalis of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics said his team is developing a noninvasive method to test for Down syndrome by comparing fetal DNA to the mother's using standard lab equipment, instead of pricey gene-sequencing gear.
However, both Collins and this reviewer are wrong as people studying FTI effects on colorectal cancer routinely use noninvasive cheek swabs and perform immunfluorescnce microscopy on the recovered epithelial cells to determine the degree to which the FTIs are inhibiting prelamin A processing.
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To avoid that issue, Dr. Muller envisions the technology as part of a strategy in which people would first be identified as at risk through a genetic test and a noninvasive imaging test such as a CT scan before being referred for the spectroscopy analysis.
Though no one tracks the total number of noninvasive or minimally invasive surgeries across the board, medical device makers say the trend is similar for other types of surgery as well--be it to relieve back pain, implant coronary stents, or shrink the stomachs of very obese people.
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