Wrist-sized bone scanner could fly to the space station in 2016
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
The University of Saskatchewan hopes to fly a wrist-sized MRI to the International Space Station by 2016 in a standard Progress cargo flight, according to Gordon Sarty, a university professor specializing in medical imaging. Why is this important? It will help doctors keep track of the astronauts' bone strength on orbit, Sarty says of his team's invention.