Re:First ever color X-ray on a human
by nathan_f77 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:37PM
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Oh I see, yes it's a bit underwhelming if that's the case. I don't even know if "true color" x-rays would be very useful, but I was thinking that being able to view the actual color of the tissue might be useful, and could convey some information that you can't get from density.
I've worked on an X-ray machine during my second internship as an embedded engineer (fantastic internship!). My task was to optimize the way images and colors are presented to the viewer, given the measured X-ray data.
What I learned there is that whatever is presented to you on the screen is _completely arbitrary_.
When you have can measure a higher range of X-ray frequencies, you have more room to play with the colors. What colors you actually assign to the data is _absolutely arbitrary_, and technology similar to this has existed for a long time.