New Zealand. Scientists have made the first 3D color X-ray of a human

A team of scientists in New Zealand have developed an X-ray machine capable of producing high-definition, color and 3D images.

New Zealand Scientists Produced First-Ever Color X-Ray three dimensions (3D) of a human body, thanks to a technique that could contribute to the improvement of medical diagnosis, according to the CERN European physics laboratory whose technology is used.

The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white radiography, incorporates the particle tracking technology developed for CERN's large LHC (Large Hadron Collider) particle accelerator, which in 2012 uncovered the famous elusive elemental particle, the Higgs Boson.

Making Diagnostics More Accurate

"This X-ray color imaging technique could produce clearer images and more precise and help doctors to give more accurate diagnoses to their patients " CERN says in a statement

According to CERN, the images clearly show the difference between bone, muscle and cartilage, but also the position and size of cancerous tumors, for example.

CERN technology, called Medipix, works like a camera detecting and counting individual subatomic particles when they collide with pixels while its electronic shutter is open. This allows high-resolution, high-contrast images to appear.

Soon a clinical trial

Thus, this new imaging tool provides images that no other imaging device can reach, according to the developer Phil Butler of the University of Canterbury.

The New Zealand company MARS Bioimaging Ltd, markets this 3D scanner, named "Spectral CT" .

In the months to come, this scanner, equipped with a Medipix reading chip, will be the first clinical trial on patients in orthopedics and rheumatology in New Zealand, paving the way for a potentially routine use of this equipment new generation, according to CERN