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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Redesigning colonoscopies with 3D imaging technology
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2016-08-28 19:00:00
	Description:		Colonoscopies are beginning to take a more futuristic form, thanks to radiologist Judy Yee of the University of California, San Francisco. Yee has pioneered the use of CT colonographies to examine the colon using graphical software and images from a CT scan. And the sci-fi part? The scans can also be viewed as holograms. "I have combined my interest in CT colonography with this novel visualization platform to be able to view the data in ways that allow us to pick up certain lesions of the colon easier. I started working on this holographic version because I thought it was a more intuitive way for radiologists and physicians to view anatomy of the body. It pulls the 2D data into what we call true-3D space, so that we could use not only visual cues but manual cues to manipulate the data in 360 degrees. And this is without any additional radiation to the patient." That would cut down a routine colonoscopy from an all-day affair to just a few hours.
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