{"id":27718,"date":"2020-12-01T13:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=27718"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:14:45","slug":"research-takes-early-steps-toward-handheld-cancer-scanning-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/research-takes-early-steps-toward-handheld-cancer-scanning-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Takes Early Steps Toward Handheld Cancer-Scanning Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27719 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-299x449.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/Klemm-Richard-scaled.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By NIKITTA CAMPBELL<\/p>\n<p>A handheld device that could allow individuals to screen themselves for cancer is one potential outcome of ongoing research into the power of terahertz lasers.<\/p>\n<p>The work comes from the lab of Richard Klemm, Ph.D.,in collaboration with the Kadowaki-Kashiwagi-Tsujimoto and Minami groups at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. They recently published the results of their exploration of crystal-powered lasers in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics vol. 59, art. No. 105004 (2020). (<a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.35848\/1347-4065\/abb8f1\">https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.35848\/1347-4065\/abb8f1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The foundation of their research is a single crystal composed of Bi<sub>2<\/sub>Sr<sub>2<\/sub>CaCu<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>8+\uf064 <\/sub>(Bi2212). One of Klemm\u2019s students, Ruqayyah Shouk, is working on the theoretical design of an array of such devices, which could increase the output power sufficiently for it to operate efficiently as a cancer detector.<\/p>\n<p>Harnessing the power of a \u201csupercurrent\u201d generated by the Josephson effect, the team believes they can use a reflected wave to study tissue beneath the skin. Such a device remains years in the future, but the lab has proven the concept is viable through tests on a dried heart pea.<\/p>\n<p>The 3D scan of the pea penetrated several millimeters deep to distinguish the three seeds at the bottom of the plant. That\u2019s enough to give Klemm optimism for what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScanning your body for cancers will eventually be as easy as brushing your teeth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Next steps include enhancing the power of the device, potentially with Queen\u2019s College in New York and Argonne National Laboratory. Production of a commercial product is easily a decade in the future, but Klemm pictures the cancer screener to something akin to a flashlight or laser pointer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By NIKITTA CAMPBELL A handheld device that could allow individuals to screen themselves for cancer is one potential outcome of ongoing research into the power of terahertz lasers. The work comes from the lab of Richard Klemm, Ph.D.,in collaboration with the Kadowaki-Kashiwagi-Tsujimoto and Minami groups at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. They recently published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":27719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,39,13,14,23,5377,28],"tags":[2877],"class_list":["post-27718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-faculty-news","category-news","category-physics-departments","category-publications","category-research","category-top-news","tag-richard-klemm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research Takes Early Steps Toward Handheld Cancer-Scanning Device - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/research-takes-early-steps-toward-handheld-cancer-scanning-device\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research Takes Early Steps Toward Handheld Cancer-Scanning Device - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By NIKITTA CAMPBELL A handheld device that could allow individuals to screen themselves for cancer is one potential outcome of ongoing research into the power of terahertz lasers. 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