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Major step for Kiwi 3-D body scanner that could revolutionise medicine

19 November 2020

The ground-breaking MARS Bioimaging scanner, a revolutionary 3-D X-ray machine invented in Ōtautahi Christchurch, will undergo its first ‘real-world’ clinical trials early next year. It’s the latest development for this exciting kiwi initiative from UC and Otago Professors [and father and son scientists] Phil and Anthony Butler.

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Phil Butler (left) and Anthony Butler inspect the scanner at their University of Canterbury headquarters. Alden Williams/Stuff

A revolutionary 3-D X-ray machine – invented in Christchurch by father and son scientists – will undergo its first “real-world” clinical trials early next year.

The MARS scanner, which generates high-resolution, 3-D colour images from inside the human body, is the brainchild of Anthony Butler and his father Phil Butler.

Phil is a professor at the University of Canterbury and a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Physics, while Anthony is a clinical radiologist and a professor at the University of Otago.

Read the full article on Stuff.co.nz.


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