Medical Imaging With a Hacked LCD Projector

From Slashdot:

Medical Imaging With a Hacked LCD Projector

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 03, @07:20PM 
from the convergent-technology dept.

An anonymous reader writes"Grad students at UC Irvine have built a spatial frequency domain imaging system using parts from a cheap LCD projector and a digital camera. The system can be used to check the level of bruising or oxygenation in layers of tissue that aren't visible to the naked eye, according to an article in Chemical and Engineering News. An accompanying video shows the series of patterned pulses that the improvised imaging system makes in order to read hemoglobin and fat levels below the surface of the skin. A more sophisticated version of the imaging system is being commercialized by a startup within UC Irvine, called Modulated Imaging. The article and video also describe infrared brain scanners that can non-invasively check for brain bleeds, and multiphoton microscopes that produce stunning images of live skin cells."

Portable, super-high-resolution 3-D imaging - MIT News Office

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/tactile-imaging-gelsight-0809.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/tactile-imaging-gelsight-0809.html
This is a novel system to capture 3D surface textures on a microscopic level.

Update:
Slashdot thread on it. Should be some good discussion. 
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/11/1246210/Portable-Super-high-resolution-3-D-Imaging

3D imaging off a Microscope using Microlens array.

Paper here: Light Field Microscopy

The Video mostly says it all. I wonder if we can do this with a real world HD Video stream? If any one has any idea, contact me, I'd love to work on this in open air regular video and photography.






Interestingly is possible to do the reverse too
Development of a natural 3D display
Kengo Kikuta and Yasuhiro Takaki