New Tool Aligns Medical Scans Quickly
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Researchers make a new computer program.
- A2
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed xvr.
- B1
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partner institutions have developed a new tool.
- B2
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partner institutions have developed a completely new medical tool.
- C1
During minimally invasive surgery—operations where doctors use small cuts and special tools instead of making large openings in the body—physicians rely heavily on flat 2D X-rays to guide their instruments.
- C2
During minimally invasive surgery—operations where doctors use small cuts and special tools instead of making large openings in the body—physicians rely heavily on two-dimensional X-rays to navigate delicate instruments.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- align
- to put two or more things in the correct position so they match or form a line
- simulate
- to create a model of a real situation or system, usually on a computer
- adapt
- to change something to suit different conditions or uses
- accuracy
- the fact of being exact or correct
- finding
- information that is discovered as the result of research into something
- generate
- to cause something to exist or to produce energy
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.