The Future of Seeing: How Imaging is Changing Our World

Over the centuries, we have learned to peer into what was once invisible. Imaging devices like cameras, telescopes, microscopes, and MRI machines map the world around, beyond, and within us in ways the naked eye could never see. In so doing, these technologies have transformed our understanding of our place in the universe and our conception of our own bodies-and we may be on the cusp of an even greater revolution.

Daniel K. Sodickson-a physicist and biomedical imaging innovator-explores the...