Physicists at Purdue University have developed a new digital holographic imaging system. This device permits to watch in 3-D how anticancer drugs fight tumors. It uses a laser which does not harm living tissues and a common microchip used in your digital cameras to see inside tumor cells. The real innovation of this system is that the holograms generated are not permanently recorded. These shimmering holograms recorded on holographic film “change in time, tracking and adjusting to changes in the image intensity and phase,” according to one of the researchers. Of course, this device can have other applications in drug development and medical imaging.

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