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  • Screenings for heart disease using electrocardiograms (EKGs), exercise treadmill tests, or electron-beam computerized tomography (EBCT).

    8 medical tests you don't need 2009

  • Much to his surprise, the electron-beam CT scan shows heavy calcium deposits in his coronary arteries.

    SEARCHING FOR HIDDEN HEART RISKS 2007

  • Doctors try to be as minimally invasive as possible, using lasers and making smaller incisions, hiding scars in inconspicuous places, and using electron-beam radiation to diminish the appearance of scars.

    SMOOTH OPERATIONS 2007

  • Another kind of CT scan, the electron-beam CT, can precisely measure the amount of this calcium.

    SEARCHING FOR HIDDEN HEART RISKS 2007

  • From the article:The BU researchers used electron-beam lithography -- a routine fabrication technique for micro-electromechanical MEMS devices -- to carve the switches from single-crystal wafers of silicon and silicon oxide.

    New storage technology 2005

  • Among them are precision milling and turning machines and electron-beam welders that before the war were tagged with IAEA seals and monitored to ensure that they were not used for an illicit weapons program.

    Archive 2004-10-01 Mumon 2004

  • Among them are precision milling and turning machines and electron-beam welders that before the war were tagged with IAEA seals and monitored to ensure that they were not used for an illicit weapons program.

    Guess what- we're LESS safe because of Iraq... Mumon 2004

  • Highly specialized machine tools—joined in the 1970s by truly massive special-purpose devices such as electron-beam and fusion welders—were located together in shops inside departments to feed batches of parts to a bench-assembly operation creating the finished engine.

    Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003

  • The WSMS3124 allows placement of an electron-beam welded shunt in electrical wattmeters.

    unknown title 2012

  • "We gave varying doses of electron-beam radiation and then studied how it influenced the properties of carriers in the graphene lattice," Murali said.

    D Mag - News 2010

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