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A glimpse into the future world of hybrid imaging

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Scanner numbers and the stance on evidence-based practice play a major part in its progress in this area, according to Goh, who is professor and chair of cancer imaging and head of the cancer imaging department at King’s College London. This article was originally published on AuntMinnieEurope.com ©2021 by AuntMinnieEurope.com.

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Drawing up a ‘Google Earth’ of the human body

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The project has already led to the creation of 3D images of lungs, a brain, a heart, a kidney, a spleen and a liver. Unlike the X-rays delivered by a clinical CT scanner, synchrotron X-rays have high energy and a high spatial coherence. Here the brain looks like it does with a clinical CT scan, albeit at some 50 times the resolution.

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