This photoacoustic imaging detector combined the high selectivity of purely optical tissue imaging with the deep penetration of purely ultrasonic tissue imaging.
A single scan could penetrate straight through the human body, see the condition of every region inside it, and acquire the majority of the data on the body's operation.
Its imaging speed was also extremely fast, generally completing an image within two seconds, and the imaging quality was superb, with resolution reaching the micrometer scale and exceptionally pronounced contrast in the image.
More importantly, it was completely harmless to the human body and completely imperceptible. All you had to do was stand in front of the instrument for two seconds and the body scan was already finished.
Put simply, the advantages of this scanning and imaging technology were speed and efficiency, high imaging precision, excellent tracking, and a small form factor convenient to use.
Ryan could imagine with no effort at all just how broad this detector's range of applications would be in reality.
In disease detection, an image took only two seconds to produce. For diseases difficult to catch in their early stages, cancer for instance, it could achieve rapid discovery while simultaneously monitoring a tumor's metastasis in real time, thereby assisting doctors in treatment.
And in disease treatment, doctors could use it to conduct drug metabolism research and examinations. Simply by leveraging the precision of its cell tracking to monitor a drug's movement inside the body, they could learn whether the drug's components were taking effect as planned, allowing real-time monitoring of treatment efficacy.
The moment poor efficacy or a rejection response was detected, a doctor could adjust the regimen immediately, with no need to wait for the body to show a reaction and then infer the effects from that, the way it had been done before.
And in scientific research, this detector could be used for deep study of all sorts of animal tissues and cells, and could even be applied to animal research on bacteria and viruses.
"This detector is just too frightening."
Ryan's heart was thumping wildly. This detector was a microscope made specifically for living organisms.
Once it existed, biological research across the country and indeed the entire world would enter a new age of explosive growth.
Questions that had refused to yield to any amount of painstaking effort might, with this detector, simply be answered by watching the demonstration play out inside the body itself.
The entire field of biology would undergo revolutionary change because of one small detector.
Its far-reaching influence on the world vastly exceeded that of the mechs he'd built before.
Set against this technology, a mech looked more like a toy a child showed off with. This was genuinely mature, genuinely contributive technology.
The only things that could be mentioned in the same breath as it were the plasma reactor and the battery, both still under lock and key.
The technology hadn't been fully developed yet, though. What had been made public now was only a portion of it. He'd have to wait for the project's research progress to climb higher before the system could develop this technology out in its entirety.
Ryan settled his emotions, paged past this technology's material, returned to the project's technical outline, and read down it item by item.
This technology was only the foundation on which this project was realized. He was very curious what sort of project would be built atop a revolutionary technology like this one.
The technological developments that followed, however, exceeded Ryan's expectations.
Carbon Fiber Robotic Skeleton.
Novel Non-Toxic Polyvinyl Chloride Process.
Medical Chip Design.
Artificial Neural Network Algorithm.
Image Recognition Program Coding.
Medical Care Program Coding.
Reading through the whole circuit of them, the technical material ran from processes to materials, from chip design to artificial intelligence. It encompassed practically everything.
"What on earth is this thing?"
Ryan murmured to himself, dragged the system page back to the very top, and looked at the project's name and concept render.
There on the image stood a tall, big, plump, round white humanoid inflatable robot, looking for all the world like an oversized marshmallow.
As for its name...
Medical Care Robot: Baymax.
Hss.
Wasn't that the robot character from the animated film Big Hero 6?
His system could actually develop technology out of a cartoon?
In that single instant, Ryan gained a fresh understanding of just how boundlessly capable this system on his person really was.
It could even develop technology from an animated film, where the scientific basis was so extraordinarily thin.
The moment he thought of this, he sank into profound regret.
Baymax's technology was fine, no question. But in that film, there was plenty of technology blacker than his.
The combined microbot units the protagonist developed, for one, controlled by neurons. Once you put that thing on, you could attack or defend at will. In a city, you'd be essentially invincible.
Or the portal that black-hearted capitalist possessed. That was black tech capable of teleporting objects across empty space.
Even with its unstable performance, no one could shake its standing in Ryan's heart. At the end of the day, it was spatial teleportation equipment.
Compared with technologies like those, the tech inside Baymax looked a little underwhelming.
Ah, well.
At this thought, Ryan quickly shook his head and flung the untimely notions out of his mind.
A person mustn't be too greedy.
The technology on Baymax's body was already black enough. Setting aside the micro detector for the moment, the medical care programs carried in the chip further down might well be a great treasure trove too.
Although Baymax could only provide basic medical services such as emergency wound care, as a personal health assistant, he carried over ten thousand kinds of medical care programs.
Those programs were only treatment plans and recommendations, and couldn't cure an illness outright. But the treatment directions revealed within them might well point the way for treating diseases in reality.
It had to be understood that the world in the animated film was a future world, so the program methods the system had simulated were bound to hold a degree of advancement over the treatment methods in use today.
Unless the system had simulated the medical care programs off the animation's 3D character models, which was to say, made them up out of thin air.
In this entire technology tree, those two things were the most valuable. The others, like the carbon fiber skeleton, fell short of Ryan's current level in terms of design, material aside.
Mechs were the strongest thing in the field of mechanical design.
Having completed two mechs, he now dared to call himself the undisputed junior overlord of the mechanical field.
And in the field of artificial intelligence, Baymax's intelligence design fell short of MOSS as well.
There was a great difference between the two. MOSS's architecture had extremely strong applicability, and after slight modification it could be used across every level of society, on a great many platforms.
Baymax's narrow coding architecture, built on personal health care, meant he was innately unsuited to large-platform, multi-tiered work.
Of course, that wasn't to say Baymax's intelligence design was unadvanced. It simply couldn't compare with MOSS.
If you truly dragged him into the world as it stood today, he could still thrash a whole swath of the field in technologies like natural language understanding, computer vision, and voice recognition.
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