Question: how do you find new ways of detecting cancer

Greg Melia answered on 8 Mar 2016:

Hi there. I use a type of imaging that people I work with originally developed to make images of plasmas in nuclear fusion reactions, and I’m trying to adapt it so that we can see thermal radiation that comes from your body – a bit like an infra red camera, but at different frequencies and in 3D. Cancer has some thermal radiation patterns that we can then recognise and see them in the 3D image. Does that tell you what you want to know?