Stanford University Medical Center Researchers Develop Tool That 'Sees' Internal Body Details 1,000 Times Smaller

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Doctors’ quest to see what is happening inside a living body has been hampered by the limits on detecting tiny components of internal structures and events. Now a team of Stanford University School of Medicine researchers has developed a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects — getting pictures with a precision of nearly one-trillionth of a meter.