Now even the cardiologists, while on work, can be an audience to the spectacular 3D view. It might not be for their source of entertainment, but they can now have a 3D view of the intricate structure of the human arteries. The conventional method of subjecting the patient to X-rays several times, to comprehend the jumble of the human arteries, is going to become obsolete.

In Washington, new software has been launched by a team of researchers, which can now easily provide a 3D view of the arteries and not only that it can effortlessly compute the length and branching of arteries along with the blockages present in them. This software uses X-rays to get the 3D view, but the frequency of using X-rays has been reduced greatly and thereby reducing the health hazards originating from the exposure to the radiation.

Currently, it has only been tested on 23 patients to fathom their arterial perplexity. This effort saving technique will be put to test at all the centers across the globe, very soon.

“This is very exciting technology that holds great promise,” says John Carroll, the director in the Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado.

via: news.yahoo | physorg