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Re:Photoacoustic Effect by thdrdt on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:55PM (#21456582)
A Dutch research group is using this to detect breast cancer. Currently the method to detect breast cancer is very painful but with the photoacoustic method it is painless.

The only con is that it can only 'see' 3cm deep.

https://optics.org/news/6/7/13

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Re:Photoacoustic Effect by oneepic on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:07PM (#21456708)
That's a little over an inch, for us Americans. Either way it still seems pretty good, especially if the person is skinny.
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