The NASA Imager Dentists Use Daily
February 23, 2017
February 23, 2017
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 23 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:
When sitting in the dentist's chair, few patients think of NASA. But the space agency is there nonetheless, in the sensor that enables high-resolution, digital X-ray imagery that helps the dentist spot problems.
The sensor had its start looking to get images of something quite different: other worlds, and our own, from space.
In the early 1990s, when NASA adopted . . .
When sitting in the dentist's chair, few patients think of NASA. But the space agency is there nonetheless, in the sensor that enables high-resolution, digital X-ray imagery that helps the dentist spot problems.
The sensor had its start looking to get images of something quite different: other worlds, and our own, from space.
In the early 1990s, when NASA adopted . . .