{"id":80532,"date":"2018-07-10T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cern-chip-enables-first-3d-color-x-ray-images-of-the-human-body"},"modified":"2018-07-10T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:22:23","slug":"cern-chip-enables-first-3d-color-x-ray-images-of-the-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/cern-chip-enables-first-3d-color-x-ray-images-of-the-human-body","title":{"rendered":"CERN chip enables first 3D color X-ray images of the human body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-chip-enables-first-3d-color-x-ray-images-of-the-human-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medical X-ray scans have long been stuck in the black-and-white, silent-movie era. Sure, the contrast helps doctors spot breaks and fractures in bones, but more detail could help pinpoint other problems. Now, a company from New Zealand has developed a bioimaging scanner that can produce full color, three dimensional images of bones, lipids, and soft tissue, thanks to a sensor chip developed at CERN for use in the <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/lhc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Large Hadron Collider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mars Bioimaging, the company behind the new scanner, describes the leap as similar to that of black-and-white to color photography. In traditional CT scans, X-rays are beamed through tissue and their intensity is measured on the other side. Since denser materials like bone attenuate (weaken the energy) of X-rays more than soft tissue does, their shape becomes clear as a flat, monochrome image.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/3d-color-xrays-cern\/55403\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/3d-color-xrays-cern\/55403\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical X-ray scans have long been stuck in the black-and-white, silent-movie era. Sure, the contrast helps doctors spot breaks and fractures in bones, but more detail could help pinpoint other problems. Now, a company from New Zealand has developed a bioimaging scanner that can produce full color, three dimensional images of bones, lipids, and soft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80532","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}