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Using infrared light, OCT can produce images at the cellular and even the sub-cellular level. Brezinski believes OCT will improve the detection and prevention of heart attacks, early detection of cancer and identification of arthritis in its early stages...
...Angiograms are only able to pick up large plaques which are one cause of heart attacks. However, there's currently no technology available in medicine that can detect small plaques, which cause over 50 percent of heart attacks" Brezinski said. "But early tests have suggested that OCT is able to do this...
According to Brezinski, OCT also has manyadvantages over high-frequency ultrasound, whichis currently the most advanced form of imagingtechnology...
...OCT [has] up to 25 times higher resolutionthan high-frequency ultrasound. Another advantageis that it's fiber opticbased and can be insertedinto tiny catheters or endoscopes that can bemaneuvered to virtually any place in the body.It's minimally invasive," Brezinski said...
...work Brezinski was honored for deals with a new imaging technology termed "optical coherence tomography (OCT)." Brezinski worked in collaboration with James G. Fujimoto, a professor...