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Three-dimensional Images May Spot Cancer Cells Sooner
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Three-dimensional Images
Medical researchers at the University of Leeds have been working on a technique involving three-dimensional (3D) high-resolution color images of tissues as a way to spot cancer cells. With the 3D images, the skin, tissue and cells can be examined from any angle to help spot abnormalities.
The technique, researchers believe, will assist doctors in understanding how cancer cells can grow and spread and this will provide them with a better understanding of how to best treat it.
The use of digital microscopy is not a new technique in the realm of cancer research. The practice of scanning tissues has been used for decades and replaced the prior technique of taking manual slices of tissue and examining them individually under a microscope. The digital scanners in practice now can produce a two-dimensional image which only provides the doctors a single cross section of an individual piece of tissue and this has drawbacks because it doesn’t allow doctors or pathologists a complete view… until the implementation of 3D imaging.
The ability to obtain a 3D image of tissue shows the connectivity of the cancerous tissue to the network of blood vessels or lymph nodes within a cross section and this is crucial to cancer specialists. With 3D imagining, a piece of tissue is sliced with a microtome and each slice is placed under the 3D digital microscope. The pathologists are then able to create realistic images which can be spun around and viewed from different angles.
With 3D technology, pathologists may be able to spot tumors that would have been overlooked in past, conventional scans or views under a microscope. Because a tumor is a “complex three dimensional ‘organ’ that is comprised of both cancerous and healthy cells including blood vessels, immune cells and other ‘normal’ cells” this technique could revolutionize the ability to spot, and treat cancers researchers found. Universe Optics provides standard and custom lens assemblies for medical imaging and diagnostic cameras and microscopes.