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Guidelines Needed to Advance Diagnostic Accuracy

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NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2012 — Tiny mechanical microscopes — those that can see inside single living cells — increasingly are being used to diagnose illness in hard-to-reach areas of the body, but specialists say they need improved, standardized guidelines to advance diagnostic accuracy. The small Space Age probes are often threaded into the narrow bile duct that connects the liver to the small intestine to search for cancer, or they are used to minutely explore the pancreatic duct, according to Dr. Michel Kahaleh of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. But because the...Read full article

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    Published: August 2012
    Glossary
    microscope
    An instrument consisting essentially of a tube 160 mm long, with an objective lens at the distant end and an eyepiece at the near end. The objective forms a real aerial image of the object in the focal plane of the eyepiece where it is observed by the eye. The overall magnifying power is equal to the linear magnification of the objective multiplied by the magnifying power of the eyepiece. The eyepiece can be replaced by a film to photograph the primary image, or a positive or negative relay...
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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