Subsequent studies are needed to investigate this effect by measuring the thickness of normal tissue above tumour at the site of measurement.
Radar can pass through foliage and clouds and be used for tasks like measuring the thickness of ice or the height of waves.
That is the discovery made by scientists using data from CryoSat-2, the European probe that has been measuring the thickness of Earth's ice sheets and glaciers since it was launched by the European Space Agency in 2010.
"It was lovely here yesterday," he concludes, tapping the bottom of a thermometer, measuring the thickness of a pig spleen, and pulling a length of seaweed out of his pants.
Thousands of people have avoided getting skin cancer thanks to Canadian scientists who invented the UV index and the gold-standard tool for measuring the thickness of the Earth's ozone layer.
By measuring the thickness of the strata, and making some educated estimates about how quickly they might have formed, Dr Grotzinger and his colleagues reckon the lake could have endured for anything from centuries to millennia.
In industry, radioactive isotopes of various kinds are used for measuring the thickness of metal or plastic sheets; their precise thickness is indicated by the strength of the radiations that penetrate the material being inspected.
c TEM images measuring the thickness of core and shell as a function of time.
Measuring the thickness of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images.
A new method was developed for measuring the thickness uniformity based on a modified Fizeau interferometer.
To evaluate the effectiveness of ultrasound on measuring the thickness of enamel in abrasion.
