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Photonic Technique Helps Fight the War Against Cancer

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Ruth A. Mendonsa

Photonic devices and techniques such as lasers and high-tech imaging have become well-known weapons in the war against cancer, heart disease and numerous other human afflictions. A team of scientists at Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University in Quebec has developed an approach in the ongoing battle against breast cancer that involves positron emission mammography and a radioactive form of glucose as an imaging agent. The team designed an imaging system that, unlike x-ray mammography, detects a tumor's increased metabolism rather than its density. The high-resolution system...Read full article

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