'Bat technology' helps detect tumors

Scottish scientists hope to create radar devices that function like bats. This device will be very effective in locating and identifying tumors hidden deep inside a human body.

Bats hunt by airing sound pulses and listening to echoes. The Strathclyde University team also relies on this principle to detect tumors hidden by ultrasound.

This technology mimics how bat species identify prey (Photo: TTO)

Professor Gordon Hayward, the leader of the research team, said: ' Bats, whales, dolphins are the animals that use the most complex sound waves to identify objects .'

The team is working with mathematicians to find sound codes for a variety of different objects, including cancer cells and they hope to complete the work in the next three years.

This system can also be used in many other areas, such as detecting and relocating mines located deep in the water. Thanks to this technology, mine hunters can easily locate and then use robots to mine mines.

Experiments are being conducted urgently by the team, along with another research team from the University of Virginia and Southern California, USA - where ultrasound waves have been used to create images at the world level. cell.

LOAN