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Unlike currently available imaging techniques, such as NMR tomography, CAT-Scan, angiography, or ultrasonography, which expose the patient to undesirable radiation, this new imaging technique does not expose the patient to undesirable radiation, such as X-rays, strong magnetic field, ultra-sound, etc. Material required for this present simplest form is a sample of internal organs in the form of a microscopic slide or a small piece of dessicated internal organ from a human or animal and a fine probe, or its alternative method (using a focused beam of light cr a positive electrical field). The imaging can be carried out any place in any emergency situation, even in a place where there are no medical facilities or electricity. In addition to imaging of the internal organs, without any prior knowledge of the patient's chief complaint or history, not only can the presence or absence of cancer of specific internal organs be suspected, even in very small si2e, but also the exact location of such a suspected area within the specific internal organ can be localized, ever, when NMR tomography or CAT-Scan has failed to detect the cancer. As a further extension of the \u201cBi-Digital 0-Ring Test\u201d application and imaging technique, the presence or absence of specific bacteria can be suspected and localized, using the patient's \u201c8i-Digital O-Ring Test\u201d response to glass slides of pure bacteria, which can often be confirmed by bacterial culture, when culturing is feasible. Imaging of different internal organs, including the heart, blood vessels, pancreas, gall bladder, duodenum, bile ducts, pancreatic ducts, kidneys, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, thymus networks, appendix, etc. were studied. Also, detection and localization of cancer of the head of the pancreas was studied, and some of the clinical examples of these various studies are shown in this article. When the \u201cBi-Digital 0-Ring Test\u201d of the pancreas representation area showed minus 3 or minus 4, the author often found an abnormally enlarged body of the pancreas, with prolonged and enlarged tail of the pancreas, with suspected bacterial infection in that part of the pancreas, often accompanied by enlarged gall bladder. These abnormalities of the pancreas and gall bladder often became normal shape and size within 30 to 60 minutes after acupuncture on the pancreas representation area corresponding to the abdominal wall above the tail (and body) of the pancreas, as well as by improving cephalic hypotension syndrome by acupuncture in some cases. This new bacterial identification method, and drug compatability to antibiotics, determined by the \u201cBi-Digital O-Ring Test\u201d indicated that many of the abnormalities found by the \u201cBi-Digital O-Ring Test\u201d in the heart were due to \u201cunsuspected\u201d bacterial infection or circulatory disturbance or combination of both, with or without ECG changes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3727\/036012985816714423","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,14]],"date-time":"2015-12-14T21:36:18Z","timestamp":1450128978000},"page":"255-277","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":38,"title":["A New, Simple, Non-Invasive Imaging Technique of Internal Organs and Various Cancer Tissues using Extended Principles of the \u201cBi-Digital O-Ring Test\u201d without using Expensive Imaging Instruments or Exposing the Patient to any Undesirable Radiation \u2013 Part I"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Yoshiaki","family":"Omura","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Director of Medical Research, Heart Disease Research Foundation, 5C Court St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201"},{"name":"Department of Pharmacology, University of Health Sciences\/The Chicago Medical School, 333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, II. 60064"},{"name":"Visiting Research Professor of Bio-Medical Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, Bronx, N.Y. 10471"},{"name":"Attending Physician, Neuroscience Department, Long Island College Hospital, 340 Henry St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1985,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2","first-page":"392","article-title":"Applications of ultra-miniature refl ection-type photoelectric plethysmographic sensors with a very short response time to the non-traumatic study of the circulatory system","volume":"17","author":"Omura Y.","year":"1971","unstructured":"OmuraY. 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