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Half the strangeness of looking at an x-ray comes from the realization that the fuzzy grayness and jointed white lines you can see actually make up your very own flesh and bones. Now, because of technology developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, people will be able to look into their bodies and see their inner bits in vibrant color — soft tissue as red, bones as white, and fat as a murky yellow. CERN describes the technology as a "breakthrough color medical scanner."
Technically called the MARS spectral x-ray scanner, the machine is based on Medipix3 technology, which operates off read-out chips designed to detect, track and render images of particles. Medipix tech was invented in the early 2000s as a way for CERN scientists to track particles being beamed about the Large Hadron Collider, a very expensive tube that allowed for the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle in 2012. CERN says that Medipix works like a camera, "detecting and counting each individual particle hitting the pixels when its electronic shutter is open."
This results in high-resolution, high-contrast images — and when applied to the human body, allows for the rendering of clear, accurate pictures that may change the medical diagnosis game.
Source: https://www.inverse.com/article/46974-x-ray-cern-color-medical-reseach
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 16 2018, @11:47PM (1 child)
And we've had the 3-D X-Rays for a while now. For a long while now. When your doctor really wants to drill down and get a very good look -- the best -- at your insides. He sends you to the hospital, they do the CAT scan. And it's 3-D, it's amazing. It's a cyber X-Ray. But, it's a lot of radiation, it's like 100 regular X-Rays. Tremendous radiation from that one. So they do the regular when that's all they need, it's much safer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:15AM
So it will give you super powers, like supermutations as in cancer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:10AM
CT scans have been making 3D xray pictures of all kinds of things for decades now.
They have also been colorized, maybe more by hand segmentation in the past, but what this "innovation" really sounds like is a more automatic segmentation algorithm - something that has been making excruciatingly slow forward progress for at least the last 15 years.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:27AM
Now they will be able to settle the argument about how many genders exist.