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I'm not sure it this is old news but I found this on Reverb.
Guitar maker Paul Reed Smith has launched startup Digital Harmonic, which has developed technology designed to deliver sharper X-rays to medical professionals, as well as reduce radiation.
The technology, resulting from the luthier’s previous efforts to engineer a guitar synthesizer, extracts previously undetected data out of waveforms to generate clearer, more-detailed images.
“This is a way of measuring images and measuring waveforms, and then dissecting them,” Smith said.
The technology, which Smith describes as “completely mathematical,” is built on a decade of research that started with his late father, Jack Smith, a former government mathematician.
In his attempt to create a new guitar synth, Smith experimented with measuring waveforms from a guitar string. When he asked his father how best to measure those waveforms, the mathematician had an immediate answer involving high harmonics.
“I said, ‘you can’t answer a $20 million question in 10 seconds,’” Smith recalls. “He said, ‘well, I just did.’ And I got interested in what the hell my old man had to say.”
While the work with his father didn’t lead to a guitar synth, it did lead to technology that, Smith said, could truly revolutionize the practice of medical imaging technology.
Full story here:
https://reverb.com/news/paul-reed-smith-detours-into-medical-imaging?_aid=feedrelatedarticle
Guitar maker Paul Reed Smith has launched startup Digital Harmonic, which has developed technology designed to deliver sharper X-rays to medical professionals, as well as reduce radiation.
The technology, resulting from the luthier’s previous efforts to engineer a guitar synthesizer, extracts previously undetected data out of waveforms to generate clearer, more-detailed images.
“This is a way of measuring images and measuring waveforms, and then dissecting them,” Smith said.
The technology, which Smith describes as “completely mathematical,” is built on a decade of research that started with his late father, Jack Smith, a former government mathematician.
In his attempt to create a new guitar synth, Smith experimented with measuring waveforms from a guitar string. When he asked his father how best to measure those waveforms, the mathematician had an immediate answer involving high harmonics.
“I said, ‘you can’t answer a $20 million question in 10 seconds,’” Smith recalls. “He said, ‘well, I just did.’ And I got interested in what the hell my old man had to say.”
While the work with his father didn’t lead to a guitar synth, it did lead to technology that, Smith said, could truly revolutionize the practice of medical imaging technology.
Full story here:
https://reverb.com/news/paul-reed-smith-detours-into-medical-imaging?_aid=feedrelatedarticle
