Saturday, April 14, 2007
Portable cheap brain scanner being tested in Mumbai
The version being tested spots deadly blood clots. The infrascanner uses harmless "near-infra-red" light - like that in a TV remote control. The light beam penetrates the skull up to three centimetres. A blood clot absorbs near-infra-red light differently to normal brain tissue and the signal is bounced back to the scanner.
Road injuries occur very frequently in India. When the source of the injury is rapidly detected by the inexpensive scanner, often enough a simple hole can be drilled in the skull at the right place and the clot washed away.
The method is noninvasional, the device could virtually be made at home and could be used for other types of scan as well.
IMO: Sounds interesting for the experimenter.
Road injuries occur very frequently in India. When the source of the injury is rapidly detected by the inexpensive scanner, often enough a simple hole can be drilled in the skull at the right place and the clot washed away.
The method is noninvasional, the device could virtually be made at home and could be used for other types of scan as well.
IMO: Sounds interesting for the experimenter.
# posted by uv : 8:20 AM
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