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Microscope to diagnose, treat diseases
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- Recently, scientists have developed a specialised microscope with the potential to diagnose diseases like skin cancer as well as perform precise surgery without making any incisions in the skin.
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- Accuracy and precision: Microscope allows medical professionals to pinpoint the exact location of an abnormality, diagnose it and treat it instantly.
- Surgery without touch: When a suspicious or abnormal cell structure came in notice, scientists can perform ultra-precise surgery and selectively treat the unwanted or diseased structure within the tissue- without cutting into the skin.
- Ability to treat any structure of the body: It could be used to treat any structure of the body that can be reached by light and requires extremely precise treatment, including nerves or blood vessels in the skin, eye, brain or other vital structures.
- Imaging and treating smallest tissues:(1) The study shows that the device allows imaging of living tissue up to about one millimetre in depth using an ultrafast infrared laser beam.(2) It can not only digitally scan living tissue, but also treat the tissue by intensifying the heat produced by the laser.
Source
The Hindu