Sentence examples for false scanning from inspiring English sources

In an evocative final paragraph, he pictures humanity wandering the corridors of Borges's imaginary Library of Babel, which contains the texts of every possible book in every language, true and false, scanning the shelves in search of "lines of meaning among the leagues of cacophony and incoherence".

The false scan didn't show the fish was lying, by the way, but that it was taking into consideration the views of other people — or perhaps fish.

Furthermore, in the high-risk neuroblastoma patient group the radiation hazard is far less than the risk resulting from false-negative or false-positive scanning results (Stabin and Gelfand, 1998).

False-negative scans were those scans that did not detect a suspicious breast lesion, but a breast cancer was detected in the following 12 months, and false-positive scans were those that resulted in a biopsy that was subsequently benign.

Dr. Rumberger's studies have shown there are no "false positive" scans, because calcium deposits turn up in coronary arteries only when they are associated with plaque.

No false positive scans were observed.

Inset, false-color scanning electron micrograph of a MCBJ device.

c, False-color scanning electron microscope image of transferred graphene on gold electrodes.

The only false negative scan was due to a skull fracture not directly under the scalp hematoma, but rather adjacent to it.

False positive scans were seen in patient 14, where 18F-FDG uptake was seen in the basal lateral wall (see Fig. 1), and in patient no. 15 (see Fig. 2), where 18F-FDG uptake near the aortic ostium was observed.

Other causes of false positive scans were ruled out.