SPADnet will not only impact PET scalability but also performance robustness and cost; another advantage is the capability of being compatible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), thus prompting advances in multimodal imaging and medical diagnostics as a whole.
Like in other industries (such as the rapidly-evolving mobile industry, where new and powerful technologies frequently vie with entrenched legacy systems), the old guard can only cling to power for so long, and sometimes it takes a disaster to prompt that advance.
My retreat has prompted an advance on the archives, and the old VCR is working overtime.
As historian Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads, notes: "We think of globalisation as a uniquely modern phenomenon, yet 2,000 years ago it was a fact of life – one that presented opportunities, created problems, and prompted technological advance".
Prompted by Advance, theatres and companies looking at the gender statistics in their own organisations over the past decade were apparently shocked by their lack of progress on gender equality.
After trying out many options, we eventually settled on an approach that would allow a user to scroll through a series of scenes organised into chapters, but there were still lots of questions to answer: how was a user prompted to advance to the next screen?
Development in tissue engineering has prompted the advance of replacement of tissues or organs [ 11, 12].
David M. Lederman, who led the team of scientists that developed the first fully implantable artificial heart — which, although it had limited success, prompted further advances in the treatment of late-stage heart disease — died on Aug. 15 at his home in Marblehead, Mass.
The theory of evolution has prompted stunning advances across the life sciences, from epidemiology to environmental science.
These so-called wars have been prompted by advances in imaging that have drawn other specialists to the turf of the radiology department, most notably those in cardiovascular medicine.
