First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by Vaslo » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 2:55 PM UTC

First ever color X-ray on a human
yahoo.com

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by matheist » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:52 PM UTC

Article is short on details. Do they take pictures with X-rays at three different wavelengths, and then render the three resulting images as individual color channels?

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by RyJones » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

There are slightly more details on the product page [0]. It looks like they have a small bore version right now, they're working on making a human sized one. There is one test image that shows part of a wrist, a watch, and part of a hand.

[0] https://www.marsbioimaging.com/mars/overview/

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by Exuma » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 4:54 PM UTC

This honestly seems like raw black magic. How is this possible?

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by scentoni » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

Another article at http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-news/firs... It sounds like the chips are detecting the energy of each xray, which is equivalent to a wavelength, and that data is then used to synthesize a 3D image.

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by tshannon » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:10 PM UTC

matheist wrote: post #2

Article is short on details. Do they take pictures with X-rays at three different wavelengths, and then render the three resulting images as individual color channels?

And get 3 times the does of radiation? Seems impractical, but possibly true.

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by nathan_f77 » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:11 PM UTC

This feels like a real black swan event to me. I guess I just assumed that black-and-white x-rays were as good as it gets, and that there wasn't any room for improvement. I've never even thought about the idea of a color x-ray. It's very exciting to see something that could change the entire field of radiology.

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by sametmax » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

tshannon wrote: post #6

matheist wrote: post #2

Article is short on details. Do they take pictures with X-rays at three different wavelengths, and then render the three resulting images as individual color channels?

And get 3 times the does of radiation? Seems impractical, but possibly true.

A chest x-ray will give you 0.1 millisieverts. That's the 60th of the dose limit used in scientific facilities like cern. And 200 times less than for radiation workers.

It's still ok, it's not supposed to be that of a regular procedure.

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by elorant » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC

Every now and then a question pops as to why we have to invest billions in researching particle physics and how can it improve our lives. Well this is how.

Re: First ever color X-ray on a human

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Post by bonyt » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 5:23 PM UTC

sametmax wrote: post #8

tshannon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And get 3 times the does of radiation? Seems impractical, but possibly true.

A chest x-ray will give you 0.1 millisieverts. That's the 60th of the dose limit used in scientific facilities like cern. And 200 times less than for radiation workers. It's still ok, it's not supposed to be that of a regular procedure.

Here is a chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/