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January 29, 2025

Video: Tracking disease progression in technicolor

Credit: ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c11724
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Credit: ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c11724

Photon-counting CT scanning is the next-generation of computer tomography diagnostics, providing precise, multi-color imaging to simultaneously track biological processes.

The Laboratory for Materials in Medicine, led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and professor of materials science and engineering and of at Penn State, is advancing the imaging capabilities by developing contrast agents to target specific molecules and processes that may reveal more about disease progression than traditional scans.

In this video, Pan and his team discuss the technology, their efforts to develop medical applications and ongoing collaborative efforts across Penn State. Credit: Pennsylvania State University

. More information on their work may be found in a review paper the team published in .

More information: Nivetha Gunaseelan et al, Nanoparticles with "K-edge" Metals Bring "Color" in Multiscale Spectral Photon Counting X-ray Imaging, ACS Nano (2024).

Journal information: ACS Nano

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Photon-counting CT scanning represents an advancement in computer tomography diagnostics, offering precise, multi-color imaging to track biological processes. This technology is enhanced by developing contrast agents that target specific molecules, potentially providing more detailed insights into disease progression compared to traditional scans.

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