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NIST Imaging Improves Medical Scanners

Surgeons could look for cells with a specific chemical makeup, as determined by the cells’ color

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Wed, 06/13/2012 - 11:13
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A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating room—and a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken steps to ensure it performs as well when discerning oxygen-depleted tissues and cancer cells in the body as it does with oil spills in the ocean.

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The technique, called hyperspectral imaging (HSI), was discussed in the June 2012 issue of Biomedical Optics Express (M.L. Clarke, J.Y. Lee, D.V. Samarov, D.W. Allen, M. Litorja, R. Nossal and J. Hwang. “Designing microarray phantoms for hyperspectral imaging validation”). It has frequently been used in satellites because of its superior ability to identify objects by color. While many other visual surveying methods can scan only for a single color, HSI is able to distinguish the full color spectrum in each pixel, which allows it to perceive the unique color “signatures” of individual objects. Well-calibrated HSI sensors have been able to discern problems from diseases in coral reefs to pollution in the atmosphere as determined by the distinct spectral signature at a location.

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