Bit of an odd article causing a few wtf moments
> engineers from UK company Adaptix have used technology developed for space to produce three-dimensional scans that generate much clearer images.
3D xrays sound a lot like CT scanners.
> Miniaturised, portable and connected through satellites, the machine should also allow patients to be scanned in GPs’ surgeries...
Sounds very buzzwordy; there seems to be very few situations where a satellite uplink would be better than a bit of fibre, especially in fixed premises.
The rest of the article seems like flimflam marketing about general scientific discovery, nothing else about how this actually works or detects cancer so clearly other than "The device employs X-ray optics deployed on spacecraft such as ESA’s XMM-Newton mission, which launched in 1999 and is observing stars at X-ray wavelengths."
Can anyone comment on what it's actually doing please?
> engineers from UK company Adaptix have used technology developed for space to produce three-dimensional scans that generate much clearer images.
3D xrays sound a lot like CT scanners.
> Miniaturised, portable and connected through satellites, the machine should also allow patients to be scanned in GPs’ surgeries...
Sounds very buzzwordy; there seems to be very few situations where a satellite uplink would be better than a bit of fibre, especially in fixed premises.
The rest of the article seems like flimflam marketing about general scientific discovery, nothing else about how this actually works or detects cancer so clearly other than "The device employs X-ray optics deployed on spacecraft such as ESA’s XMM-Newton mission, which launched in 1999 and is observing stars at X-ray wavelengths."
Can anyone comment on what it's actually doing please?