Lasers look inside human bones – optics.org
Scientists in the UK are set to carry out hospital tests on a new laser technique that could ultimately lead to rapid and reliable detection of bone disorders such as brittle bone disease. The method includes a novel version of Raman spectroscopy – routinely used by physicists and chemists – and could give medics the most detailed characterisation yet of bones inside the human body, according to researchers based at the Central Laser Facility in the UK.