Multispectral optoacoustic method detects microscopic pancreatic cancer in 'first of a kind' project
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The new technique can detect pancreatic cancer cells with approximately 10 times more magnitude than current techniques such as a CT scan (image: April stock/Shutterstock)
CT scans can only detect cancer around 1cm in size, but multispectral optoacoustic tomography can pick up cancer cells down to 200 microns with an innovative contrast agent
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