Imagine if it was possible for a surgeon, when operating on a patient with breast cancer, to insert a microscope […]
Posts Tagged ‘Laser’
Opto-Acoustic Imaging Holds Promise
The problem with breast imaging modalities such as mammography and ultrasound, is that they are only able to show the […]
What a Great Idea!
Not too many people know that the world’s first digital laser was invented in South Africa, or that in the 1980s two […]
Seeing the Light
At a congress hosted last week by the Optical Society of America in Florida, researchers from the Politecnico of Milan in Italy presented a […]
Awaiting the Call from Stockholm
It’s the first week of October when many researchers who believe they may be candidates for the Nobel Prize are awaiting […]
Holography: Radiology’s Future?
In 1971 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Dennis Gabor “for his invention and development of the holographic method.” His […]
The Future of Breast Screening?
Imagine a technology that was the size of a shoebox, did not use ionizing radiation, did not require breast compression, […]
Terahertz Imaging of Breast Tumours
There is a region of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between microwaves and infrared known as the “terahertz gap” that encompasses the frequency […]
World’s First Digital Laser
Digitally controlled laser modes. Copyright Nature Publishing Group. Gordon Gould first coined the term laser — light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation — […]