Portable X-ray scanners

Scientists are realizing handheld scanners in Star Trek films. A team of engineers from the University of Missouri (USA) is introducing a small, portable x-ray emitting source.

Assistant Professor Scott Kovaleski predicts that within the next three years, they will create the original portable X-ray scanner based on the new invention.

As such, mobile-like compact devices can improve medical services in remote and poor areas of the world.

Kovaleski experts have developed other applications with small radiography sources, such as on-site dental imaging, reduction in radiography in other areas of the body in the case of normal imaging, or equipping Customs inspection of goods at the border and border.

In addition, self-propelled planetary devices such as Curiosity on Mars can be equipped with compression sensors, which help save energy, according to a report in the IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science.