Re:First ever color X-ray on a human
by pharrington on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:08PM
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To be more precise, CERN took part in Medipix3's development.
https://medipix.web.cern.ch/medipix3-collaboration-members
Yes, this is a PR release for tech using the Medipix3. If I understand correctly (which I very probably don't since this HN thread is the first time I've heard of this technology), this is analogous to faster/more accurate AI software being developed with some chip company's latest massively parallel processor - representative of real, but nowhere near groundbreaking, technological advancement.
Re:First ever color X-ray on a human
by lars_thomas on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:56PM
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In this case it’s more than HU value LUT though. Photon counting allows per energy bin attenuation to capture more information. It’s cool and promising but costly and not new per se.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounsfield_units#Value_in_part...
CT machines have this calibrated as standard, DICOM images have the corresponding fields for the values. Any DICOM viewer will do this (i.e. 3D Slicer, ParaView, OsiriX etc.)
As you say, there is nothing new in this, just PR. Medipix also has been around for a while, it's basically a solid state detector with an integrated USB readout on the silicon. Neither has been invented at CERN, its COTS.