This is the first 3D color X-ray image in the world, don't see if you're weak at heart

In order to detect fractured bones, people often use a black and white image with high contrast. But after more than 120 years of existence, the X-ray image has now been raised to a new level, full of colors, 3D, showing not only every bone in your body!

The traditional way to take pictures inside a patient's body is to use X-rays. These electromagnetic radiation has a shorter wavelength than visible light, so it can easily penetrate soft tissues, but it is difficult to penetrate harder materials, such as bones. On the other side of your body, a sensor, or film, will produce an image based on the intensity of the X-ray that has penetrated your body, thereby showing what is inside our body. .

3d x-ray photo.

A New Zealand company named Mars Bioimaging developed a new medical imaging scanner, operating in a similar manner, but "borrowing" the capital technology developed for the Large Hadron Collider (machine Huge particle acceleration) at CERN to produce results with more details. The Medipix 3 chip works similar to the sensor in your digital camera, but it detects and counts the number of particles that touch each pixel when the shutter is opened.

When used on new scanners developed by parents Pil and Anthony Butler from the University of Canterbury and Otago (New Zealand), Medipix 3 chips are enhanced with custom data processing algorithms. , can detect changes in wavelengths when X-rays penetrate different materials in the body. This allows the scanner to distinguish between bone, muscle, fat, liquid and any other material in the human body; While the supplementary software will use this data to create amazingly colorful images, allowing us to have a 3-dimensional view inside the body.

Scanners can distinguish between bones, muscles, fat, liquids and all other materials in the human body.

Therefore, when a doctor looks at X-ray images of your arm, looking for signs of fracture or fracture after a memory fall, the doctor can find medical conditions. Other potential hazards which cannot occur in normal X-ray results. Currently smaller test versions of this scanner are being used to study cancer, as well as the joint and bone health of patients; But this technology will be useful in countless other medical fields, from dentistry to brain surgery.

It will take many years for the new Spectral CT scanner above to receive all kinds of licenses and approvals needed before being applied in hospitals and clinics. But at this point, it has almost completed the research phase and will be tested clinically in New Zealand in the next few months.