{"id":139000,"date":"2022-05-06T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/bye-bye-biopsy-handheld-device-could-painlessly-identify-skin-cancers"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:22:46","slug":"bye-bye-biopsy-handheld-device-could-painlessly-identify-skin-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/bye-bye-biopsy-handheld-device-could-painlessly-identify-skin-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Bye, bye, biopsy? Handheld device could painlessly identify skin cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bye-bye-biopsy-handheld-device-could-painlessly-identify-skin-cancers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A device, created at Stevens Institute of Technology, uses millimeter-wave imaging \u2014 the same technology used in airport security scanners \u2014 to scan a patient\u2019s skin to detect if they have skin cancer. Millimeter-wave rays harmlessly penetrate about 2mm into human skin, so the team\u2019s imaging technology provides a clear 3D map of scanned skin lesions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A device, created at Stevens Institute of Technology, uses millimeter-wave imaging \u2014 the same technology used in airport security scanners \u2014 to scan a patient\u2019s skin to detect if they have skin cancer. Millimeter-wave rays harmlessly penetrate about 2mm into human skin, so the team\u2019s imaging technology provides a clear 3D map of scanned skin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139000","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=139000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}