Saturday, December 1, 2007

New X Ray Technique Targets Terrorists And Tumours

Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new x-ray technique that could be used to detect hidden explosives, drugs and human cancers more effectively.

Professor Robert Cernik and colleagues from The School of Materials have built a prototype color 3D X-ray system that allows material at each point of an image to be clearly identified.

The innovative work is reported in the latest issue of The Journal of the Royal Society Interface and is published online. The technique developed by the Manchester scientists is known as tomographic energy dispersive diffraction imaging or TEDDI.

MedicalNewsToday

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