Breakthrough in the field of imaging optics

British experts have invented a fiber-optic device as thin as a human hair, allowing observations of "nooks" inside the body to be out of reach for surgeons.

Impressed with new fiber optic technology

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have successfully developed a special technique that allows for the first time to transmit accurate image data along a thin fiber optic cable.

Until now, similar efforts have failed because the signal is too bad.

However, experts have found a way to decipher the messy data and recreate a clear image, according to the Daily Mail.

The breakthrough invention opens up hope for the development of imaging devices to minimize surgical intervention, which can touch the most difficult to swallow "nooks" in the human body, especially for neurological research and treatment.

The work of the University of St Andrews is still quite new, but experts hope that in the near future, there will be many impressive achievements in the field of imaging for medicine.