I wanted to make a sarcastic comment on Brexit but it’s perhaps too serious to leave it as a joke :( will this project be shuttered as part of Brexit and what are the other that risk a similar fate?
> engineers from UK company Adaptix have used technology developed for space to produce three-dimensional scans that generate much clearer images.
3D xrays sound a lot like CT scanners.
> Miniaturised, portable and connected through satellites, the machine should also allow patients to be scanned in GPs’ surgeries...
Sounds very buzzwordy; there seems to be very few situations where a satellite uplink would be better than a bit of fibre, especially in fixed premises.
The rest of the article seems like flimflam marketing about general scientific discovery, nothing else about how this actually works or detects cancer so clearly other than "The device employs X-ray optics deployed on spacecraft such as ESA’s XMM-Newton mission, which launched in 1999 and is observing stars at X-ray wavelengths."
Can anyone comment on what it's actually doing please?
The breakthrough seems like the clarity of the images, few cameras operate with as little light as a space based telescope used to view distant objects. They seems to have paired that tech with tradition CT scanner. So you are not technically wrong but I'm not sure why those are wtf points, any improvement is a good improvement when hunting for tumors. I have thought to myself many times while observing a doctor look at the various scans they take, "wtf, those images are shit, you sure there is no cancer doc?". Also competition in this space is excellent, hyping this is better than your next deliver service startup.
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The dividends paid by basic research are difficult to measure.
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Blows my mind.
> engineers from UK company Adaptix have used technology developed for space to produce three-dimensional scans that generate much clearer images.
3D xrays sound a lot like CT scanners.
> Miniaturised, portable and connected through satellites, the machine should also allow patients to be scanned in GPs’ surgeries...
Sounds very buzzwordy; there seems to be very few situations where a satellite uplink would be better than a bit of fibre, especially in fixed premises.
The rest of the article seems like flimflam marketing about general scientific discovery, nothing else about how this actually works or detects cancer so clearly other than "The device employs X-ray optics deployed on spacecraft such as ESA’s XMM-Newton mission, which launched in 1999 and is observing stars at X-ray wavelengths."
Can anyone comment on what it's actually doing please?