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Future of Imaging Technology

 

scanning electron microscope showing salmanella typhimurium invading cultured human cells

 

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.

Image credit: NIH

 


 

Medical Imaging

 

A doctor stands next to a patient getting ready to go into an MRI machine

 

Advances in medical imaging techniques and equipment allows researches a deep view into the basic workings of life and are the foundation for future medical discoveries.

Medical Imaging

 


 

Microscopy

 

Scanning electron microscope image of pollen (false colors)

 

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

Microscopy

 


 

Telescopes

 

A graphic representing the science themes of the James Webb Space Telescope

 

Telescopes

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