The big payoff from imaging technology, some experts say, may come as researchers combine the scans with other techniques, like genetic or biochemical tests.

Recently, some researchers have actually been combining design-based stereology and confocal microscopy to further their investigations into the specific neuronal cellular structures.

In the new research, the researchers combine the light of two lasers to create a pinwheel-like pattern of bright and dark spots.

Other researchers combine field work showing chimp behavior in natural habitats with laboratory experiments that are created to disclose their underlying intelligence - what scientists call their "cognitive reserve."

Of 44 previous studies that the researchers combined and analyzed, 3 found no difference between women who took hormonal contraceptives and those who took a placebo.

The gift, the largest in the university's history for a single purpose, is to be spent over 10 years, mainly to hire researchers to combine traditional approaches with newer fields like genomics.

The researchers combined each of the urine samples with human bladder cells and E. coli bacteria.

Then the researcher would repeat the process from other hubs, like Chicago, and combine the results.

Many researchers combine qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis to better answer questions which cannot be studied in laboratory settings, particularly in the social sciences and in education.

Working in laboratory rats, the researchers combined a flap of muscle tissue from the animal with demineralized bone powder and a potent bone growth factor called osteogenin.