Posted on 07/12/2018 12:54:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
The CERN technology, dubbed Medipix, works like a camera detecting and counting individual sub-atomic particles as they collide with pixels while its shutter is open
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New Zealand scientists have performed the first-ever 3-D, colour X-ray on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field of medical diagnostics, said Europe's CERN physics lab which contributed imaging technology.
The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray, incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which in 2012 discovered the elusive Higgs Boson particle.
"This colour X-ray imaging technique could produce clearer and more accurate pictures and help doctors give their patients more accurate diagnoses," said a CERN statement.
The CERN technology, dubbed Medipix, works like a camera detecting and counting individual sub-atomic particles as they collide with pixels while its shutter is open.
This allows for high-resolution, high-contrast pictures.
The machine's "small pixels and accurate energy resolution meant that this new imaging tool is able to get images that no other imaging tool can achieve," said developer Phil Butler of the University of Canterbury.
According to the CERN, the images very clearly show the difference between bone, muscle and cartilage, but also the position and size of cancerous tumours, for example.
The technology is being commercialised by New Zealand company MARS Bioimaging, linked to the universities of Otago and Canterbury which helped develop it.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Too awesome, T Y 4 posting.
Very cool! No doubt that price tag will make you pucker.
ABOUT! EFFING! TIME!!!!!
Lets now get it to work with MRI, or some other non radiation based process. See all the squishy bits without the rads. All the way down to blood chemistry and gasses.
Where are the star trek diagnostic beds?
No more decision branch testing that run$ up the dollar$. Go in, lie down, scanner runs, and complete summary comes out, or data can be stored for later evaluation.
YMMV
KYPD
One of those things that made you stop and wonder why that was thought of before.
What a cool breakthrough!
This would be great if it’s as good as an MRI.
The bad news is they are doing press releases even though it isn’t available yet.
Technology used to detect/tract particle collision is tricky
IPO?....................
Hehehe..you said coccyx!..................
Creepy...but cool
Great. Now my Mammogram will undoubtedly wind up as a Centerfold on The Interwebs! *SMIRK*
I think it’s cool technology, but I would STILL like my Flying Car. I’ve been waiting since 1960!
With the way people are flying DRONES all over the place and you want to put a 1500 pound vehicle in their hands?..............
So, the subatomic particles collide with individual LED computer monitor elements.
Interesting.
No. Just ME! I am an excellent driver. No moving violation tickets and no accidents since I started at 16. :)
I DID run over a squirrel the other day, but I don’t think we’re running out of squirrels. ;)
Eventually they will have a ‘real time’ full color x-ray like the old fluoroscopes, only safer.................
I hit a squirrel on the way to work yesterday. It had been hit by the car in front of me, and I put it out of its misery..............
This is a frustrating statement: ALL image sensors count individual sub-atomic particles - photons, at least - as they collide with pixels while their shutter is open!
A little bit of further digging online turns up that they are somehow using detailed spectral information, not just the traditional magnitude information within a given X-ray spectral range. Still, though, details are scant.
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