Lihong Wang creates the sort of medical technology you'd expect to find on the starship Enterprise.
Wang, a professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has already helped develop instruments that can detect individual cancer cells in the bloodstream and oxygen consumption deep within the body. He's also created a camera that shoots at 100 billion frames a second, fast enough to freeze an object traveling at the speed of light.
"It's really about turning some of these ideas that we thought were science fiction into fact," says Richard Conroy, who directs the Division of Applied Science & Technology at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Wang's ultimate goal is to use a combination of light and sound to solve the mysteries of the human brain. The brain is a "magical black box we still don't understand," he says.
[For more of this story, written by Jon Hamilton, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/he...-to-reveal-the-brain]
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