How a particle accelerator illuminated 56 human organs
4/17/202618 min
A new imaging technique using a particle accelerator is giving researchers an unprecedented level of detail of our organs, producing scans 100 billion times brighter than a CT scanner. Those 3D models are now part of a public database called the Human Organ Atlas, available to researchers and the medically curious.
Joining Host Ira Flatow to explain why they needed so much power and what kind of research advances will follow is imaging scientist Claire Walsh, director of the Human Organ Atlas hub.
Check out images from the Human Organ Atlas on our website.
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Dr. Claire Walsh is an associate professor at the UCL department of mechanical engineering and director of the Human Organ Atlas Hub.
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Ira Flatow· Host1:14
[instrumental music] Hey, it's Ira, and you're listening to Science Friday. When I was a kid, my dad gave me a copy of Gray's Anatomy, you know, that five-inch thick classic anatomy textbook,