New Zealand scientists have performed the first-ever 3-D, color X-ray on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field of medical diagnostics, said Europe’s CERN physics lab which contributed imaging technology.

　　欧洲CERN物理实验室表示，新西兰科学家首次对人类进行了3D彩色X光检查，使用了一种有望改进医学诊断领域的技术。该实验室为成像技术做出了贡献。

　　The new device, based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray, incorporates particle-tracking technology developed for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which in 2012 discovered the elusive Higgs Boson particle.

　　这款基于传统黑白X射线的新设备结合了CERN大型强子对撞机的粒子跟踪技术，2012年该公司发现了难以捉摸的希格斯玻色子粒子。

　　"This color X-ray imaging technique could produce clearer and more accurate pictures and help doctors give their patients more accurate diagnoses," said a CERN statement.

　　CERN的一份声明说：“这种彩色X射线成像技术可以产生更清晰、更准确的图像，帮助医生给病人更准确的诊断。”

　　The CERN technology, dubbed Medipix, works like a camera detecting and counting individual sub-atomic particles as they collide with pixels while its shutter is open.

　　CERN技术被称为Medipix，它的工作原理就像照相机在其快门打开时与像素碰撞时探测和计数单个亚原子粒子一样。

　　This allows for high-resolution, high-contrast pictures.

　　这允许高分辨率，高对比度的图片。

　　The machine’s "small pixels and accurate energy resolution meant that this new imaging tool is able to get images that no other imaging tool can achieve," said developer Phil Butler of the University of Canterbury.

　　坎特伯雷大学(University Of Canterbury)的开发人员菲尔·巴特勒(PhilButler)说，这台机器的“小像素和精确的能量分辨率意味着，这种新的成像工具能够获得其他成像工具无法实现的图像。”

　　According to the CERN, the images very clearly show the difference between bone, muscle and cartilage, but also the position and size of cancerous tumors, for example.

　　根据CERN，图像非常清楚地显示了骨骼、肌肉和软骨之间的差异，以及癌症肿瘤的位置和大小。

　　The technology is being commercialized by New Zealand company MARS Bioimaging, linked to the universities of Otago and Canterbury which helped develop it.

　　这项技术正在由新西兰公司火星生物成像公司商业化，该公司与奥塔戈大学和坎特伯雷大学合作开发了这项技术。