{"id":435,"date":"2019-08-16T17:17:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/?page_id=435"},"modified":"2019-08-16T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:25:05","slug":"nanopath","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/nanopath\/","title":{"rendered":"NanoPath"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1565799281818{margin: 0px !important;padding: 100px !important;background-color: #c5e8f9 !important;border: 25px double #bcbcbc !important;border-radius: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;469&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The digital transformation of pathology promises to revolutionize modern medicine and disease diagnostics. This translates into curing more patients and saving billions of Euros in diagnostic and treatment costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Unfortunately, this potential is significantly limited by the vast resolution \u00adand cost void between the two imaging systems currently in use for pathology today: the low-cost, high speed, and lower resolution optical microscope and the high-cost, slow speed, high resolution electron microscope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">NanoPath, a BioTek 2021 project funded by the Research Council of Norway, aims to bridge that gap, providing optical resolution of 50-250\u00a0\u03bcm with higher throughput and lower cost than electron microscopy but with higher resolution than conventional optical microscopy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This project combines the unique capabilities of a chip-based waveguide platform with the enhanced resolution of the MUSICAL nanoscopy algorithm and the international expertise of pathologists and medical researchers. Prototype technology will be tested on a variety of histopathological samples by end-users at their own site, and feedback will be used to improve both the technological design and the user experience. Ultimately, we aim to see this technology implemented as a standard tool in pathology labs worldwide, enabling more accurate and timely diagnoses for patients everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;437&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1565799281818{margin: 0px !important;padding: 100px !important;background-color: #c5e8f9 !important;border: 25px double #bcbcbc !important;border-radius: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;469&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40&#8243;][vc_column_text] The digital transformation of pathology promises to revolutionize modern medicine and disease diagnostics. This translates into curing more patients and saving billions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/nanopath\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-435","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}