Posted June 11th, 2007 by admin
NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 06/11/2007
In-Orbit Ultrasounds Conducted Onboard Space Vehicles
Medical imaging technology has led to quicker diagnoses of conditions that, when caught early, can be treated. Because such devices are large, however, they are impractical in the limited area of a space vehicle. An on-going NASA project to address the issue involves image fusion, where in-orbit ultrasounds would be combined with previously done Earth-bound scans that are more informative.
NASA Tech Briefs spoke with Dr. Richard Boyle, the project’s principal investigator.
Dr. Boyle explained, “Image fusion is the combining of images of the same subject from different modalities, from CT scans to MRIs. This produces a coherent 3D image that has multi-dimensional information that should be superior to any of the constituent images alone.”
Read the “Who’s Who at NASA” interview with Dr. Richard Boyle on page 10 of the June issue, or click here.
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