Very cool, very cool indeed. The US Navy has developed a portable brain scanner which pushes near-infra-red light a few centimetres into the brain, giving the ability to detect clots that would normally only be found with large and very expensive CT scanners (or by symptoms e.g. death)

And some interesting Slashdot zombies factoids:


  • Looks like they’re based in PA, USA… But due to US regulations, they aren’t allowed to test the device on patients in the US, and have outsourced such clinical testing to India.

  • Other advantages : infrared light is non-ionizing, so it’s absolutely no dangerous to use that kind of instrument continuously on a person until we are sure there’s no problem.

References:
Cheap Blood Clot Detection Device (via Slashdot.org)