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February 1997

More Bang for the Ouch

By Nancy Ross-Flanigan

Doctors tracking the progress of a disease for research or treatment must often gather detailed information from inside the body. They may need, for example, to take the temperature of a malignant tumor at several spots or check the blood flow and oxygen levels in a diabetic's limb threatened with amputation.

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