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As Luke points out, the ultrasound is very safe. However, in many cases it is not required. Typically by 20 weeks into the pregnancy, and sometimes earlier, a baby's sex can be determined by examining the genitals via ultrasound. My experience is that this is the most common reason for an ultrasound during pregnancy.
Of course if there are complications ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the following information regarding the risks of ultrasound imaging;
Ultrasound imaging has been used for over 20 years and has an excellent safety record. It is non-ionizing radiation, so it does not have the same risks as x-rays or other types of ionizing radiation.
Even though there are no known ...
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There is a lot of variation in how and when deer shed their antlers. In most arctic and temperate-zone species, antler growth and shedding is annual, and is controlled by the length of daylight. In tropical species, antlers may be shed at any time of year, and in some species such as the sambar, antlers last several years. Some equatorial deer never shed ...
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I'm not familiar with the technique, it is as I'm sure you already know very specialised and I've found it fairly difficult to find resources specific to cine-MRI. At a glance at the wikipedia entry, however, there are a few differences that I can point out to you.
A normal MRI will take a snapshot image of a section of the body in time, therefore can not ...
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Coronary artery disease thickens the wall. Flow is dramatically affected by thickness (radius to the fourth power). In an echo you observe the heart muscle i.e. does it contract normally using the surrounding muscle and baseline as a comparison. If the wall is thickened, this will cause a decrease in perfusion which will result in the heart muscle ...
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The Open Source Computer Vision library OpenCV is pretty popular. I'm a Python guy, but it also has C, C++, and Java interfaces. The O'Reilly book Programming Computer Vision with Python was pretty good, and their C-oriented Learning OpenCV from 2008 is coming out with a new C++ edition in July, supposedly. There are also the OpenCV online docs, linking to ...
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