First color x-ray on a human

New Zealand scientists made the world's first 3D color X-ray on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field of medical diagnosis, said CERN's European Physics Laboratory, which helped imaging technology. The new device, based on traditional black-and-white radiography, incorporates the particle tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which discovered in 2012 the elusive Boson particle of Higgs

"This technique of 39 color X-ray imaging According to a CERN statement, CERN's technology, called Medipix, functions as a camera detecting and counting individual subatomic particles when they collide with pixels.

This allows high-resolution, high-contrast images

The small pixels and the precise resolution of the machine's energy allowed this new imaging tool to enforce it. Butler of the University of Canterbury

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

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