Adding Color to 3D Medical Imaging

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) announced that they have developed the first technique to offer full color infrared tomography. They say that they combined Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy with computed tomography (CT) scans to create a non-destructive 3D imaging technique that provides molecular-level chemical information with unprecedented detail of biological specimens with no need to stain or alter the specimen.