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Medica 2018: Diagnostic software detects arteriosclerosis at an early stage
Too little exercise, unhealthy food, smoking – these factors promote arteriosclerosis. In industrialized countries, the disease is responsible for half of all…
Investigating the Liliput effect with computer tomography
In a pilot study, palaeobiologists from the GeoZentrum Nordbayern at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now succeeded in…
Electron tomography technique leads to 3-D reconstructions at the nanoscale
Understanding the microscopic structure of a material is key to understanding how it functions and its functional properties. Advances in fields like materials…
XXL computed tomography: a new dimension in X-ray analysis
Computed tomography with X-rays is nowadays playing an important role even outside of medicine. For example, for product development for industrial…
Early countermeasures against ineffective therapies
What effect does a particular cancer medicine or radiation therapy have on patients? To find out, physicians use CT images to determine whether a tumor’s size…
Histology in 3D: new staining method enables Nano-CT imaging of tissue samples
Tissue sectioning is a routine procedure in hospitals, for instance to investigate tumors. As the name implies, it entails cutting samples of body tissue into…