World's smallest imaging device can 3D-scan inside your blood vessels:
An Australian/German team has developed the world's smallest imaging device, at the thickness of a human hair. It's capable of travelling down the blood vessels of mice, offering unprecedented abilities to 3D-scan the body at microscopic resolutions.
[...] With this breakthrough, the team has built an OCT scanning device small enough to be pushed through blood vessels in the body. This ultra-thin probe can be rotated and slowly pulled backwards to build up a 3D map of its surroundings to a depth around half a millimeter below the surface. It offers unprecedented abilities to scan the vascular system of the body for the plaques, made up of fats, cholesterol and other substances, that tend to build up in blood vessel walls and lead to heart disease.
The team performed successful tests of the device in both human and mouse blood vessels, demonstrating its ability to deliver quality OCT images and the flexibility to get where it needs to go in the body. Its precisely printed lens allows the scanner to image depths five times deeper than previous attempts, and the researchers believe this tiny probe could open up new scanning options in hard-to-reach places like the cochlea of the ear and potentially even parts of the nervous system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @04:19PM (1 child)
To have an undersea base you need three things. Oxygen, energy source, and blood vessel scanning. Oxygen can be extracted from the sea water, energy can be nuclear or geothermal, and now this can be used to scan the blood vessels for nitrogen bubbles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @05:53PM
I was thinking how high the image quality would be... for strictly artistic photographic reasons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @06:21PM (3 children)
maybe a plaque scrubber and a rejuvenating cream to reduce hardness and other undesirable qualities?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday July 25 2020, @06:50PM (1 child)
The problem is plaque scrubbers often cause scaring, which also leads to stiff blood vessels. (Of course, stents aren't exactly flexible, either.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2020, @07:22PM
> plaque scrubbers often cause scaring
Can it be vacuumed off?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @06:44AM (2 children)
but can it scan the skulls of Donald Trump and Joe Biden for a brain? I figure it's gotta be in their somewhere. We just haven't found it yet.
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