From sci-fi to reality microendoscopy to diagnose breast cancer?
...y few glass fibres. So the Guys team, working with endoscope designers and manufacturers Acueity Inc. from Cali...ugh the tiny openings at the tip of the nipple the endoscope sends back magnified pictures of the inside of the breast duct to television screens where doctors c...Scientists image tooth decay in the 3rd dimension
...echnique is fast and simple and we could attach an endoscope to our kit to allow dentists to use the device in the surgery. They would shine the endoscope at the tooth they wanted to examine, and by using high-speed CCD camera, the image could be delivere...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
...ed a fiber-optic probe that is inserted through an endoscope that will measure via spectroscopy the structural properties of cells in tissue. For example, cancerous cells can be identified by changes in size or density of sub-cellular components like the nuclei. Bigio's research takes the spectroscopic measure...Rice engineers demo first T-ray endoscope
...ity in Houston have demonstrated the world's first endoscope for terahertz imaging, a discovery that could exte...'s kept them off of some factory floors -- and our endoscope technology has the potential to change that."...Faster, less expensive test proven more effective in detecting bladder cancer
... also received a cystoscopy, which uses a flexible endoscope to examine the bladder. This low-risk procedure can be performed under local anesthesia in a doctor's office and is considered the "gold standard" of diagnostic tests, but can fail to detect some bladder cancers, says Grossman. In this study, the res...