Heavy-ion radiography

Heavy-ion projection radiography and heavy-ion computerized tomography (CT) are being developed in our laboratory into low-dose, safe, reliable, noninvasive clinical diagnostic radiological procedures that can quantitate and image very small density differences in the structure of human tissues. The ability of heavy ions to achieve a more precise resolution of density and composition of normal and neoplastic tissues of the body than x rays provides the potential for improved clinical diagnostic cancer detection in general, and of small cancers in human tissues in particular