Scientists are closer to making Star Trek’s Medical Tricorder a reality thanks to two recent discoveries.
Bones McCoy made Star Trek’s portable black box famous by using it to diagnose ailments without ever touching a patient. Now, studies show that the tricorder is closer to becoming reality, because of new medical-imaging technology and a new state of matter.
“When we were conceptualizing (our experiment), we saw the ultimate device should be noninvasive, giving you the molecular details of the disease going on inside the body,” said Howard Chang of Stanford University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. “I think a tricorder is a useful idea…. It shows the gap between what we have now and what we hope technology will achieve in the end.”
It’ll be quite amazing when this techonology is developed to it’s full potential. Obviously, it would improve diagnosis and the speed of it.
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[tags]medical equipment, medical imaging, durable medical equipment[/tags]