Olympus develops tissue hardness sensor:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Olympus (Japan) has produced a sensor for quantitative hardness measurement of tissue. Developed at Nihon University, Japan, the experimental device is a piezoelectric oscillator which may be useful in the early detection of types of stomach cancer or other tumorous growths that are hard to discover by external examination.
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