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  • Hybrid Microscope Could Bring Digital Biopsy to the Clinic

    Feb 24, 2020 9:30 pmNews Article

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    • [Image ID: three side-by-side images of the same pink-tinged cell tissue, which are amorphous blobs with other blobs of different shades inside. The image on the left has the least distinct detail, and what look like white scratches distorting some of the color of the image. The one in the center is a lighter pink with more distinct purple details. The one on the left is deeply saturated purple, with pink, blue, black, and green details that show up very distinctly. End ID]

    By adding infrared capability to the ubiquitous, standard optical microscope, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hope to bring cancer diagnosis into the digital era.

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