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3-D Color X-Rays Could Help Spot Deadly Disease Without Surgery
Researchers in New Zealand have captured three-dimensional color X-rays of the human body, using an innovative tool that may eventually help diagnose cancers and blood diseases without invasive surgery.
The new tool could serve as “a diagnostic road map to a destination,” according to Dr. Gary E. Friedlaender, an orthopedic surgeon at Yale University who treats bone cancers found in complex locations, such as inside the pelvis.
“It’s about being able to first find the explanation for somebody’s symptoms, like a tumor, and then find the best way to reach it with the least amount of detours and misadventures,” he said. “We want to minimize the damage to normal tissues.”
Source: NYT