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New Super Scanner Can Scan Body in Under a Minute
Smivs writes to mention that a new 3D scanner, unveiled at the Radiological Society of North America, has been in use for the last month at the Metro Health medical center in Cleveland, Ohio. This new scanner allows for much more detailed scans of the entire body in just under one minute also cutting the exposure to x-rays by as much as 80%. The cost of the new tech has not yet been released.
It would be interesting to see if this gets ported over to the entertainment industry as well. If it can do everything it claims to be able to do it would greatly help with modeling movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean" where bone structures of the actors are important.
By and large, the medicine portrayed in House is accurate, even if it is rare and farfetched.
What requires more suspended disbelief than the medicine are these facets of the show:
1) All these interns run their own labs (by hand, no less), do their own surgeries and biopsies, and run CT, MRI and ultrasound scanners all by themselves
2) A narcotic-addicted doctor that displays such insubordination, so thoroughly and arbitrarily abuses his subordinates, and is so blase about sexual harassment, would be allowed to practice in any hospital. There are plenty of assholes doctors, but House goes beyond belief.
It is much like believing that Seattle Grace Hospital has only five surgeons, and innumerable promiscuous interns, who do everything.
It's not a replacement for a CT scanner, it *IS* a CT scanner. The synopsis, as well as the article itself, is very vague and misleading. This isn't some brand new technology, it's technology that is and has been continually advancing since the 70's. I work with a 16 slice scanner in a hospital and it can do all of the 3d reconstructions like in this article, just takes longer to acquire the data from the patient.
To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question... or is it?
So, I guess you never heared of the visible human project then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
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