Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Future of Imaging


Imaging Technology

Imaging is the formation of a picture. This simple definition understates its power. From cave drawings to the Martian landscape, images help us to communicate and to understand.
New technologies are opening windows into previously unseen worlds and showing them to us in three dimensional crystal clarity. We can now watch the brain in action, view individual atoms and look back to the beginnings of our universe.
scanning electron microscope showing salmanella typhimurium invading cultured human cells

Microscopy

The microscope is a major contributor to many of the latest technological breakthroughs in. Some microscopes are even being used in reverse--to manipulate atoms and molecules

Telescopes

nebula, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

This nebula, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope,
is about 170,000 light-years away.

Learn more about Telescopes
pet scan animation

Medical Imaging

Doctors are getting a clearer picture of what is going on inside the human body. Innovations in medical imaging will light the way for the fantastic voyage of future medicine.

Animation by Jens Langner

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