To Improve Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Good Medicine Is a Polymer Pill

Doctors may soon be able to diagnose lung cancer more effectively thanks to new pill-sized ellipsoids developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The objects mimic the density of tumors. NIST researchers hope that the mimics will help scientists increase the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) scans.

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