Category: News
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UW researchers developing miniaturized imaging device to treat heart attack, stroke
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death in the U.S. and around the world. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 17.9 million people die from CVDs each year. The vast majority of these deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes. Heart attacks and strokes happen when a buildup of plaque, or…
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Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
By Molly Sharlach, Princeton University Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view. Now, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have overcome these obstacles with an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of…