NIST effort could improve high-tech medical scanners
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 08:02
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) -- A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating roomand a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken steps to ensure it performs as well when discerning oxygen-depleted tissues and cancer cells in the body as it does with oil spills in the ocean.