Near-infrared technology pinpoints fluorescent probes deep within living tissue; may be used to detect cancer earlier. Many types of cancer could be more easily treated if they were detected... Read more
Dartmouth engineers and physicians develop innovative stereovision system Researchers at Dartmouth College have found a way to make back surgery safer, faster and more cost effective. MRIs a... Read more
Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment MIT researchers have developed a biomedical imaging system that could ult... Read more
This scientific development could be used in the not too distant future to create new assisted vehicle driving systems, to identify counterfeit bills and documents, or to obtain more accurat... Read more
For hundreds of years, optical devices like telescopes and microscopes have relied on solid lenses that slide up and down to magnify and to focus. To tune how much light is received, convent... Read more
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new imaging system that enables high-speed, three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of microscopic pre-cancerous chang... Read more
Traditional surveillance cameras can be of great assistance to law enforcement officers for a range of scenarios — canvassing a crowd for criminal activity, searching for who left a su... Read more