Angiography with liquid metal may revolutionise image quality

Submitted by: Erica CurcioGold Contributor

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Author(s): Ashley Feinberg

Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have taken a potentially wildly complicated problem and come up with a (relatively) simple solution by injecting the heart with gallium, a chemically stable metal that melts at about 85 degrees Fahrenheit. In other words, it has no problems flowing through the labyrinthine vessels of the heart.

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