X-Message-Number: 21990 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:31:03 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Lasers take 3D brain scans http://www.nature.com/nsu/030609/030609-2.html Lasers take 3D brain scans Infrared light probes tissue a slice at a time. 10 June 2003 GEOFF BRUMFIEL A new technique for probing tissue samples with lasers could give researchers easy access to three-dimensional images of brain samples and pieces of other organs. The system could replace the current methods of imaging soft tissue, says one of its developers Jeff Squier, a physicist at the Colorado School of Mines. Typically, samples are frozen, sliced and dyed, before being examined under the microscope. This process can distort key details.[cont.] Still destructive but it's a step. James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the politician and proselytizing religious fanatic who proscribes what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by fetal tissue research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to useless gods and pontificating religious quacks, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21990