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Now i have an easy to understand example to make my skeptical friends understand how CERN’s research benefits us in myriad ways.
“The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray, incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider.” Now i have an easy to understand example to make my skeptical friends understand how CERN’s research benefits us in myriad ways.
https://www.marsbioimaging.com/mars/media-pack/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JyRdqyU-j5PambGUgfs4Cx5uKf3...
“The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray, incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider.” Now i have an easy to understand example to make my skeptical friends understand how CERN’s research benefits us in myriad ways.
Fundamental science research always has applications decades in the future. It's pretty rare that practical applications are found "now".
- For a given procedure, will the radiation dose be higher than its corresponding 'black and white' X-Ray?
- If the radiation dose is higher, does the color add additional information or does it increase the diagnostic capabilities? Traditional X-rays (CT) already distinguish between soft-tissue, bone, fat, cartilage... so will the color distinguish structures within soft-tissue?
Coloring is arbitrary and conveniently chosen in the example to look like visible wavelength response as if the patient was dissected. It does not work for more complicated anatomy and even in this case needs very likely post processing.
I wish we could have a peek inside the patient as if we had opened it up but this is not yet that.
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?
http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-news/firs...
There are a bunch of ways to convert that to an RGB display, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple rendering options you can flip between until you find the one that gives you the visual discrimination you're looking for.
After much searching I found the energy resolution here [1], stated as [1] http://dpnc.unige.ch/seminaire/talks/campbell.pdf
Also: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/8/02/C02...
Photon counting sensors have been available for quite a while. This is unfortunately not new. It’s not ’color’ it’s multi channel imaging. X-ray tubes produce wide spectrum of x-rays, these type of sensors are able to put different bands to different buckets. Coloring is arbitrary and conveniently chosen in the example to look like visible wavelength response as if the patient was dissected. It does not work for more…