Earlier that afternoon, for instance, he had had his left ear scanned.
Thirty yards away, a lookout with a mobile phone clamped to his ear scans a busy traffic junction for police.
"We're hoping people will be able to walk in the store and have their ears scanned like people get their ears pierced today," he says.
I examine my children several times a day, probing between toes, behind ears, scanning their (usually naked, anyway) bodies for any sign of a tick or a tick bite.
Some have constructed algorithms for rendering the sequences of chemical constituents in DNA or protein molecules in musical form, so that we can "ear-scan" the data rather than "eyeballing" it.
But, as mentioned above, the real secret sauce is in the custom fit through an ear-to-ear 3D scan of your face.
While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
Field biologists often see groups of wild elephants freeze in unison and spread their ears to scan for these infrasonic rumbles.
Consequently, full PET activation studies for both ears including scans during silence as a reference require 18 scans, i.e., altogether more than 3 h for the patient lying on the examination table.
The VSB was an appropriate option for his right ear because CT scan findings showed that his stapes, oval window, and round window were normal and that therefore VSB could provide a unilateral stimulation to his right ear.
