Not Just for Bones! X-rays Can Now Tell Us about Soft Tissues too (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

Not Just for Bones! X-rays Can Now Tell Us about Soft Tissues too

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Maps of stiffness (storage modulus) in uniform-concentration sample (left) and sample with harder inclusion (right) (sample: polyacrylamide gel). It can be seen that harder inclusion is clearly visible in spite that its concentration is only slightly different from the surrounding matrix. Note that such a slight difference cannot be discerned by typical X-ray radiography for medical diagnostics.

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Wataru Yashiro, the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University

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