Sharpened focus: Improving the numbers, utility of medical imaging
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 21:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The idea of probing the body's interior with radiation stretches back to experiments with X rays in the 1800s, but more than a century later, images taken with radiological scans still are not considered reliable enough to, serve as the sole indicator of the efficacy of a cancer treatment. Researchers have now set out to change that.