US researchers have developed according to its own information the world’s first whole body 3D Scanner. He aims to make processes in all organs and tissues at the same time, visible.
The medical Scanner with the name “Explorer” could create within a second a whole-body image in 3D, shared with the researchers Simon Cherry, Ramsey Badawi of the University of California, Davis. First Scans he had already produced, before a broad use in the clinic, a lot of development work was still necessary.
The Scanner once to create films that show, for example, as specially selected drugs travel through the body. With him will be the strength of the blood flow measurement or the absorption of glucose in the body. The researchers want to understand how cancer cells have spread, and inflammation or infection in the body trace.
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The Team worked for approximately 13 years on the project, which was funded by several scientific institutions in the United States. The technology could, for example, Gobahis to improve diagnoses.
“I had imagined for years how the images would look like, but nothing had prepared me for the incredible Details that we could find on the first Scan see”, said researchers Cherry. There are many analyses are still needed.
The Scanner is based on a combination of two well-known, improved procedure: positron Emission tomography (PET) metabolic processes in the body visible. To do this, the Patient radio receives the active substances, which migrate through the body. Computed tomography uses x-rays to produce images.
The researchers will present their device at the Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, which begins on Sunday in Chicago. They hope that they can be measured with the first device in June 2019 patients in research projects. Just plan according to own data the first studies to demonstrate the capabilities of the device.
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