{"id":123611,"date":"2021-06-09T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-completely-new-type-of-camera-can-actually-see-through-the-human-body"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:25:50","slug":"a-completely-new-type-of-camera-can-actually-see-through-the-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-completely-new-type-of-camera-can-actually-see-through-the-human-body","title":{"rendered":"A Completely New Type of Camera Can Actually See Through The Human Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-completely-new-type-of-camera-can-actually-see-through-the-human-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017 could be used on smartphones to scan the body for illnesses.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Medical techniques for looking inside our bodies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-footage-shot-from-inside-a-human-larynx-is-incredible-and-kinda-horrifying\">have come a long way<\/a>, but in the future it looks like doctors may be able to see absolutely everything going on under our skin.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have invented a new kind of camera that can actually see through structures inside the human body, detecting light sources behind as much as 20 centimetres (7.9 inches) of bodily tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The current prototype, developed by researchers from the University of Edinburgh in the UK, is designed to work in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endoscope\">endoscopes<\/a> \u2013 long, slender instruments that are often equipped with cameras, sensors and lights to peer inside hollow cavities inside the human body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 could be used on smartphones to scan the body for illnesses. Medical techniques for looking inside our bodies have come a long way, but in the future it looks like doctors may be able to see absolutely everything going on under our skin. Researchers have invented a new kind of camera that can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}