Sleep happens in cycles that include three non-rapid eye movement (NREM) stages and one rapid eye movement (REM) stage, repeated 4 to 5 times nightly. Each cycle typically lasts 90 to 110 minutes. The ...

Light sleep is the beginning of your sleep cycle and your body's way of winding down. Breathing, heart rate and muscle changes prepare your body for the deeper sleep to come. Light sleep is broken ...

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Noise is a fundamental component of confocal images, a result of discreet digital sampling of continuously emitting photons from samples. The contribution of noise to image quality (signal-to-noise ...

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