Medical breakthrough: the very first 3D color radiography performed on a human

Small pixels and the precise resolution of the machine's energy allowed this new imaging tool to obtain images that no other imaging tool can achieve, "said developer Phil Butler of the University of Canterbury

Paris: New Zealand scientists carried out the entire first 3D color radiograph on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field.The new device, based on traditional black-and-white radiography, incorporates the particle tracking technology developed for the large collider of CERN hadrons, which discovered in 2012 the elusive particle of Higgs boson.

"This technique of color X-ray imaging could produce clearer and more accurate images and help doctors to give more accurate diagnoses to their patients, "says a CERN statement. logy, dubbed Medipix, functions as a camera detecting and counting individual subatomic particles when they collide with pixels while its shutter is open. This allows high resolution and high contrast images.

The small pixels and the precise resolution of the machine's energy allow this new imaging tool to obtain images that no other imaging tool can reach, says developer Phil Butler. According to CERN, the images very clearly show the difference between bone, muscle and cartilage, but also the position and size of cancerous tumors, for example.

The technology is marketed by New Zealand. the company MARS Bioimaging, linked to the universities of Otago and Canterbury that contributed to its development.

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Source: PTI