X-ray plates have always been boring to look at, and you couldn¡¯t really see anything.
Only after the doctor points out the anomaly, you¡¯d go ¡°oh¡± from realisation.
But this might soon become a thing of the past.?
a medipix chip/CERN
Thanks to the brilliant scientists at CERN, we may soon be able to get 3D X-rays.?
MARS Bioimaging Ltd, a New Zealand based company is producing the 3D scanners with the help of CERN¡¯s Medipix3 technology.
Scientist Phil Butler and his son Anthony from? Universities of Otago and Canterbury have perfected this technology.
The medipix chips are used for particle imaging and detection. The chips were basically like cameras, but very precise, because they operate on a particle level.
?It was earlier used to track particles in CERN¡¯s Large Hadron Collider, but intense research has shown that these chips have application beyond particle physics.
This isn¡¯t the only time. CERN Knowledge Transfer group has often shared their technologies, especially to build medical equipments.
Different colours are recorded by the scanner for different body components like fats, tissues, and bones.
A 3D x-ray image of a wrist/cern
The colors represent the different energy levels of the photons, and with complex algorithms, the scanners produce the 3D image.?
According to CERN, only a smaller version of the MARS¡¯s scanner is being used to study cancer, bone and joint health, and vascular diseases that cause heart attacks and strokes by researchers right now.