Computing
the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images
(April 25, 2012) University
of Illinois engineers developed a method to computationally correct aberrations
in three-dimensional tissue microscopy.
From left,
postdoctoral researcher Steven Adie, professor P. Scott Carney, graduate
students Adeel Ahmad and Benedikt Graf, and professor Stephen Boppart.
CHAMPAIGN,
Ill. — Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for
medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and
ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed a technique to
computationally correct for aberrations in optical tomography, bringing the
future of medical imaging into focus.
The
computational technique could provide faster, less expensive and higher
resolution tissue imaging to a broader population of users. The group describes
its technique this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.