INNOVATIVE IMAGE SENSING TECHNOLOGY AIDS EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETES AND ALZHEIMER'S

摘要

Researchers at Toyohashi Tech in Japan have developed a novel semiconductor-based imaging system for the early detection of diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer's. Each disease creates specific proteins in the blood to which the body reacts. Conventional methods used for monitoring these antibody-antigen reactions from blood samples employ fluorescent probes to detect fluorescence with microscopic cameras. This process, however, is time-consuming because the fluorescence-measuring probes can't detect low concentrations of antigens when the fluorescence intensity is too low to be detected optically.