Science Scotland 6: Imaging. Introduction by Professor Anne Glover
There is nothing more compelling than a visual image and it is no coincidence that the most massive processing system in the human brain is the visual cortex... Professor Anne Glover FRSE, Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland introduces Science Scotland 6.
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Science Scotland Issue 6. Imaging
Download PDF. This magazine is produced by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, with financial support from The Scottish Government, and was established in co-operation with British Council Scotland.
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The future in sight
While thousands of visitors take photos in Edinburgh Zoo
with their new-fangled camera phones, little do they know
that just 200 metres away is a building where 13 per cent
of the imaging systems bought worldwide last year were designed and developed.
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Size Matters
They say that “small is beautiful” and electronics engineers in Edinburgh are proving this correct by making television screens as tiny as a contact lens…
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Life Under the Microscope
When you mention lasers, many people still think of death rays, but the new generation of laser-based multiphoton microscopes are shining light on all sorts of medical problems, from cancer to toothache…
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When Cells Divide
If scientists could watch the birth of chromosomes and change the way they develop, they would be on the threshold of mind-boggling breakthroughs in treatments for many diseases, including genetic disorders.
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Digital Dreams Come True
A team at Glasgow School of Art has digitised the city, to create a virtual model that is “better than the real thing” – the model is accurate down to 6mm while some actual buildings are two metres out from the architect’s original 2 D plans.
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Mind Reading
Psychologists at the University of Glasgow have embarked on a project to map what goes on in the mind, using massive computers to analyse how people process visual information.
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The Fast Field-Cycling Revolution
Medical physicists at the University of Aberdeen made history in 1980 when they did the first whole-body MRI scan on a patient, and a new generation of scientists is again making headlines by using Fast Field-Cycling technology to amplify the images from MRI scanners
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Scanning the Horizon
Medical physicists at the University of Aberdeen are looking far beyond the current applications of nuclear medicine, using radioactivity not just to make people better but also to develop better drugs…
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The no-brainer scanner
Computed tomographic (CT) scanning has been around for over 30 years and has revolutionised the treatment of many brain diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been available for routine clinical use for about 20 years and has added substantially to the scanning revolution.
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