Putting Your Smart Phone Where Your Mouth Is
August 7, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
Engineers at Stanford have built a prototype for a smart phone clip-on (over the phone’s camera) that illuminates the oral cavity with fluorescent light and then takes a picture. Cancerous lesions show up as dark spots, and the image can be forwarded to a care provider for action. Though this piece doesn’t mention the possibility of using infrared imaging in a similar way to identify vascular problems or tumors in the skin, one idea clearly points to the other. MORE