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How the MARS Scanner will revolutionise medical treatment

15 January 2020

The MARS Scanner, invented by UC Professor Phil Butler and his son, University of Otago Professor Anthony Butler, is the world's first colour 3-D x-ray and will one day replace many of the medical scanners being used today, including PET and MRI.

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L-R: Professors Anthony and Phil Butler with their MARS Scanner.

STUFFNewshub and TVNZ profiled the Butlers' work, and their plans for the groundbreaking MARS Scanner

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