{
  "id": 1580957,
  "title": "Time-gating technique sees through deep tissue, dense fog, and other obstacles",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/time-gating-technique-sees-through-deep-tissue-dense-fog-and-other",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-17T22:40:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-gating-technique-deep-tissue-dense.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a cost-effective imaging system that can see through deep tissue, dense fog, and other obstacles. This breakthrough, detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications, leverages a technique called time-gating to convert near-infrared light into visible light, allowing for clear images even when traditional methods struggle. The system's ultrafast light bursts serve as a shutter, only allowing infrared photons to pass through for a microscopic fraction of a second. This process, essentially a camera's shutter controlled by light, enables the conversion of near-infrared light to visible light, producing high-quality images in real-time.",
  "summary": "From helping doctors detect cancer to guiding self-driving cars through traffic, many modern imaging systems rely on near-infrared light, producing a crisp picture when visible light would scatter and yield a blurry picture. But near-infrared systems struggle when light passes through materials like deep tissue or dense fog, succumbing to the same scattering effect in which photons deviate from…",
  "key_points": [
    "University of Rochester researchers developed cost-effective imaging system",
    "Time-gating technique converts near-infrared light to visible light",
    "System sees through deep tissue, dense fog, and other obstacles"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}