First 3D colour X-ray of a human using CERN technology
What if, instead of a black and white X-ray picture, a doctor of a cancer patient had access to colour images identifying the tissues being scanned? This colour X-ray imaging technique could produce clearer and more accurate pictures and help doctors give their patients more accurate diagnoses.
This is now a reality, thanks to a New-Zealand company that scanned,
for the first time, a human body using a breakthrough colour medical scanner
based on the Medipix3 technology developed at CERN. Father and son scientists
Professors Phil and Anthony Butler from Canterbury and Otago Universities spent
a decade building and refining their product.
Medipix is a family of read-out chips for particle imaging
and detection. The original concept of Medipix is that it works like a camera,
detecting and counting each individual particle hitting the pixels when its
electronic shutter is open. This enables high-resolution, high-contrast, very
reliable images, making it unique for imaging applications in particular in the
medical field.
Hybrid pixel-detector technology was initially developed to
address the needs of particle tracking at the Large Hadron
Collider, and successive generations of Medipix chips have
demonstrated over 20 years the great potential of the technology outside of
high-energy physics.
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Source: CERN