The first 3D, full-color X-rays will weird you out

Classic black and white x-rays, move down the bench.

New Zealand company MARS Bioimaging has developed the world’s first full-color, 3D X-rays, and they’re so real it’s rather disturbing.

Developed over a decade by father and son scientists Phil and Anthony Butler in collaboration with the Universities of Canterbury and Otago, the MARS system is a new medical scanner using technology developed at CERN. And it could be more accurate than the typical scans you get a doctor’s office these days.

The MARS scanner uses a family of chips called Medipix, originally developed to track particles at the Large Hadron Collider. Medipix works like your camera — when the electronic shutter is open, each individual particle is detected and counted, creating high-res, accurate, noise-free images. Read more…

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