From a small shop in Tangerang, Dr. 4D Warsito finding technology that NASA recognized.
VIVAnews - Warsito almost crazy when his computer was burnt by lightning. Only one laptop was left, and it also suddenly collapsed. This ordeal: on the computer, missing a dozen years of research results do not leave tracks.
Almost a week he stayed in the room. Such dreams foundered. He wanted to create a scanner with a four-dimensional (4D)-based technology-Electrical capacitance volume tomography (ECVT). That technology, scanning a three dimensional (3D), with high-speed moving objects, resulting in a 4D image.
Bitter. But he must rise, and should not be surrendered. Accident forced him to re-unpack the archive, and research notes. A team of experts was formed to help the great work. They are from the Center for Research Laboratory Tomography (CTECH Labs).
Perhaps the wisdom behind the disaster. Previously, he was lazy to disassemble the data stored on a dozen years. Everything is stacked like building overlaps. There's no other way smoothed, except to disassemble, and rebuild from scratch. "Perhaps the key to success here," he told VIVAnews.
In 2004, research was kelar. But still in the form of simulation. Even so, the findings Warsito immediately became the target of a number of world leading companies. Scanner technology, the world's first 4D was finally patented in the United States, and international patent agencies PTO / WO in 2006.
No less, the crush is NASA, the U.S. space agency. "NASA is an institution outside of the first to admit this technology, and then wear it while still a research level," he said.
NASA uses the technology's findings, to develop a scanner system stacks of dew on the outside wall of the shuttle. As the plane lurched, there is a change in temperature is very high. Piles of moisture that could damage the aircraft wall made of ceramic.
After NASA, the findings Warsito ogled by other top institutions, such as the Ohio State University, the company B & W, the U.S. Energy Department, University of Cambridge, and a number of other large institutions.
Technology Warsito was estimated would bring drastic changes in research and technology development. Its scope is also broad. Starting from the energy sector, chemical processing, medicine to nano-technology.
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Tomographic pursue research since 1992, precisely when he kelar final S1, Warsito said achievements are the fruits of hard work. Tomography was not there he developed a sudden. "The long development process, followed by continuous improvisations until now," he said.
Tomography is a technology to scan various objects, from outside to inside conditions, without damaging the cross section. This technology consists of a series of sensor systems, electronics, and computers.
With this technology, scanning can be done from outside, without touching the object. The most common example is a machine CT Scans, and MRI are used in the medical field. Only two tools are simply generate two-dimensional images (2D), with no moving objects.
While the creation Warsito tomography is able to scan 3D, or with volumetric high-speed moving objects. "So could 4D, three-dimensional space and one dimension of time," he said. Any application, said Warsito, very broad. "From the reactor used in factories, the human body, nano-scale objects, until the bowels of the earth."
According to Warsito, scanning from the inside toward the outside wall it can be done because the technology creation 4D tomography using non-linear electric waves. Another scanner technology uses a linear wave, so that can only scan from outside the object, into objects.
In Indonesia, the technology is still being developed Warsito, used for scanning high-pressure gas cylinders, such as gas-fueled vehicles Transjakarta Bus.
High pressure gas cylinders need to be scanned to check if there are cracks in the tube is not visible. Therefore, cracks that could lead to explosion, and the fatal impact. This scanner system has been used in high pressure gas cylinder factory in Cikarang.
"There are a lot of technology derived from the sensors and tomographic now we are developing, such as sensors for the treatment of cancer, the scanning system of human brain activity, until the sensor for gas leaks," Warsito added.
In the field of medicine, technology Warsito findings clearly surpasses the ability of CT Scan and MRI. CT Scan inventor, Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and Dr.. Alan Cormack, was rewarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Division in 1979. Also the inventor of MRI, Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield, who won the same award in 2003.
Will Warsito become Nobel prize winners in the future?
"It's too high to be proud of it all. What I think was the desire to give hope to the nation that is not too pessimistic with their abilities, and not have to feel inferior to people everywhere," said Warsito.
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Not Superman, DC Comics cartoon character, which gives inspiration to create the technology Warsito 'invisibility' of this. He even joked not believe greatness of Superman.
This finding only bits of his imagination during high school. At that time, he was transfixed by the figure of the comic genius who succeeded in developing a copier that can clone the exact same thing the original.
"The story I never forgot. That's a little inspired to develop this tomographic technology. Because this technology could 'copy' the entire object into 3D digital data," said the man who now serves as an expert Research and Technology.
Born in Solo, May 16, 1967, he whose full name is Mrs P Taruno, not the children who grow up with big dreams. As a child of the village on the slopes of Mount Lawu, he lived perfunctory. He spent his childhood struggles with rice, and livestock.
But indeed, the intellectual ability to be forged because he liked to read books. "I borrowed what book can I borrow and read. I read it anywhere, could be in the rice paddies, fields, rivers. Goats eat my plants are full of people, I am satisfied to read books," he said. Activity dilakoninya loose during high school.
As a brilliant student, Warsito later moved to Yogyakarta, after his name listed as a student of Chemical Engineering UGM. But he failed school to college, because the knock of the expense. He then migrate to Jakarta. Lucky, he got a scholarship at the University of Shizuoka, Japan, 1987. Scholarships her highest academic degree (S3), 1997.
In 1999, he emigrated to the United States. Drawing on research on tomography, he became one of the world's 15 top researchers in the Industrial Research Consortium, Ohio State University. A respected research institution is the reference number of the world's giant oil companies like ExxonMobil, Conoco Phillips, and Shell.
In the midst of busyness of research, he took the time to write in a number of international scientific journals. Not infrequently, he is also believed to be the main speaker in a number of worldwide scientific forum.
Unforgettable moment was when he finished giving plenary session (plenary lecture) at the international conference on reactor engineering at Delft, The Netherlands, 1999. "It was a great conference plenary session, attended by experts and professors from around the world. Looks like there's no greater reward than that, that I have ever felt in my life. Like a story in the movie."
Four years he devoted energy and time in America. Starting in 2003 until 2006, he chose the Wara-wiri between America and Indonesia.
Finally, he decided to return to Indonesia, raising CTECH Labs had built in a tiny shop in the area of Tangerang. "The ideals I build a research institution that is not inferior to any research institution in the world, and that in Indonesia."
In his eyes, the world of science in Indonesia is less challenging. Not just limited to container, but also the interaction antarilmuwan in the international arena is weak. Real challenges of the industry are also minimal. "Without the challenge, the world of science we are not going forward," he said.
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