{"id":222142,"date":"2025-09-19T03:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/researchers-develop-colorized-x-ray-imaging-for-clearer-material-and-tissue-analysis"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:23:05","slug":"researchers-develop-colorized-x-ray-imaging-for-clearer-material-and-tissue-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/researchers-develop-colorized-x-ray-imaging-for-clearer-material-and-tissue-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop colorized X-ray imaging for clearer material and tissue analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-colorized-x-ray-imaging-for-clearer-material-and-tissue-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When German physicist Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen discovered X-rays in the late 1800s while experimenting with cathode ray tubes, it was a breakthrough that transformed science and medicine. So much so that the basic concept remains in use today. But a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories believes they\u2019ve found a better way, harnessing different metals and the colors of light they emit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called colorized hyperspectral X-ray imaging with multi-metal targets, or CHXI MMT for short,\u201d said project lead Edward Jimenez, an optical engineer. Jimenez has been working with materials scientist Noelle Collins and electronics engineer Courtney Sovinec to create X-rays of the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this new technology, we are essentially going from the old way, which is black and white, to a whole new colored world where we can better identify materials and defects of interest,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When German physicist Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen discovered X-rays in the late 1800s while experimenting with cathode ray tubes, it was a breakthrough that transformed science and medicine. So much so that the basic concept remains in use today. But a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories believes they\u2019ve found a better way, harnessing different metals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222142","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}