A Turkish nuclear physicist develops radiation-free imaging device

A Turkish scientist team headed by Associate Professor ELIF INCE from University of Istinye in Istanbul has developed a radiation-free imaging device. In an interview with press Dr. INCE has noted that the production process of the device will start within 2 years, latest.

The team that has achieved this success consists of several scientists such as Professor Yunus SOYLET, Professor Dr. Cenk BUYUKUNAL, Professor Dr. Mehmet ELICEVIK and Professor Haluk EMIR and Elif INCE, an associate professor and nuclear physicist.

The team was awarded the gold medal in the contest organized by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Authority, for their device developed to display the bladder.

Nuclear Physics Specialist Assoc. Dr. INCE provided the following information about the tomography device they had developed:

“We started this patent study at Istanbul University in 2014. Professor Yunus SOYLET, Professor Dr. Cenk BUYUKUNAL, Professor Dr. Mehmet ELICEVIK and Professor Haluk EMIR are also in this project. These scientists are from the Department of Pediatric Urology of Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine and I am a nuclear physicist.

When we first started this project our priority aim was to examine the illness called voiding dysfunction. That is where we started as wanted to cure it. We developed a magnetic belt for this, a wearable device – We are expecting to have it registered soonest.

Then we started to work for a more accurate diagnosis and developed some calculations to examine the pressure and volume in the bladder, using artificial intelligence. The third stage was imaging. When we did this imaging, we aimed to prevent children from receiving radiation, and we looked for a formula that could be instantly imaged as with ultrasonography. It should not contain ionizing radiation. During this research, we discovered that we could use the electrical impedance method.

The radiation-free imaging device is not used for bone imaging. It is only for soft tissues. Ionizing radiation threatens our health to a serious extent, breaking the cell structure.

There is a lack of information on this subject; we have radiation everywhere, so we are exposed, the world has its own radiation, electric devices have radiation. But ionizing radiation has shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies. This kind of radiation disrupts the structure of living cells. Gamma or X-rays have high ionizing radiation”

INCE says the project is now with the Ministry of Health of Turkey and waiting to be made available in compliance with the program of the ministry.

We CONGRATULATE this “brilliant” Turkish scientist and her colleagues involved in the project for having made such an important invention useful for humanity, to make all Turks proud.