LED lights to be used for tumour detection
According to a recent release from Nanoscale, an interdisciplinary team from Rice University, USA, has confirmed on the basis of thorough experimentation, that LED lights have an enormous potential to identify tumours, by shining the light on these. Such a conclusion was drawn using an instrument based approach, dubbed as spectral triangulation system, which is a customised version of the modern medical imaging system.
Team leader Bruce Weisman, along with his group, placed detection of carbon-nanotube marker tagged, antibody associated tumour cells as their main objective. As an explanation, they said that the absorption coefficient of short wave infrared light in tissues feature different wavelengths at different levels. Owing to such phenomena, light-spectra analysis was preferred as it could produce information related to the depth of tissues through which light has passed.
