Mammograms can hurt, but they don’t need
Daria Artemenko / Offer
Getting an X-ray may not be comfortable – you can place any while you have pain or have a part of your body compressed. But a flexible fabric that makes X-rays easier to find that can eliminate that.
“Think about scanning damage to a child who does not prevent them, or enforced the tests of chest tests,” as Li Xu In Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He and his partners do a textile called X-containing which scintillates – mean it releases light when exposed to x-ray – that it can be a reality.
Since X-rays are more difficult to find than visible lighting, medical and x-ray industry, as well as CT scans, use scintillating substance. These can be x-rays after, for example, to pass one foot, re-edit the woven appears in an image of the body part to show the spectacular bones such as broken bones. But the most commonly used scintillators are tight, making the devices they attach to the bulky and are uncomfortable to interact with.
To prevent this, researchers revisited scintillating materials, for the example Gadolinium oxide entered into pieces of Europium, which they worn clothes.
Xu says this is a technical challenge to make these fibers hit x-ray. His team shows that the fabric can be useful for getting dental X-rays – in trials, it is made x-wear x-wear model made from clay and teeth. It is also used for mammography, where it makes an x-sol bra that removes the need for someone chest insistent Period of imaging, which is the pattern of current practice.
Imalka Jayawarde At the University of Surrey in the UK says the capacity of X-within conforming to the body is a great advantage if flexible discussions scintillator usually contain inner content and bends, but do not bend things. However, he said the detectors for the light needed to be paired as well as flat, which now limits the possible use of clothing.
Researchers can make samples of wearing X-SOLD to a quarter of a square, so before it can be used in many sizes and adapt to industry equipment.
The team also works in industry applications for x-sol wear, such as small, flexible devices for inspecting electronics or tubes for errors. Xu says that First responders in a disaster zone can also use x-sol adjacent to a smartphone and a compact x-ray source to do site scans.
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