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The new device, based on traditional black-and-white radiography, incorporates the particle tracking technology developed for CERN's large LHC (Large Hadron Collider) particle accelerator, which in 2012 revealed famous elusive elemental particle, the Higgs Boson. " This color X-ray imaging technique could produce clearer, more accurate images and help doctors provide more accurate diagnoses to their patients ," CERN said 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's Medipix technology works like a camera that detects and counts individual subatomic particles when they collide with pixels while its electronic shutter is open.
This allows high-resolution and high-resolution images contrast. Thus, this new imaging tool provides images that no other imaging device can achieve, according to developer Phil Butler of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). The New Zealand company MARS Bioimaging Ltd, markets this 3D scanner, called "Spectral CT". In the coming months, this scanner, equipped with a Medipix reader chip, will be the subject of a first clinical trial on patients in orthopedics and rheumatology in New Zealand, paving the way for a potentially routine use of this device. new generation equipment, according to CERN
IMAGES. First 3D color radiographs
3D radiograph of ankle in front view where the soft tissue (colored red) has been made translucent to show the bones (white) and the lipid material (yellow) inside the ankle.
MARS BIOIMAGING LTD
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