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New Super Scanner Can Scan Body in Under a Minute

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on

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.

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  1. Re:This scan would make "House" episodes... by CRCulver · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have you also noticed how central New Jersey seems to get an unproportionally high amount of freak medical conditions and epidemics?

  2. Re:This scan would make "House" episodes... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Realistically, it should be North Jersey, where all the oil refineries and chemical waste reside.

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  3. Re:This scan would make "House" episodes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    *SPOILER*SPOILER*S04E08*SPOILER*SPOILER*

  4. Re:This scan would make "House" episodes... by VE3MTM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They used to, in the first two seasons. Since then they've slipped, however, and focus more on the soap opera. This site has in-depth reviews of House episodes by a (real, actual) physician. Look at an early episode, then look at a Season 4 episode.

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  5. Re:X-Ray or MRI? by ceoyoyo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It looks to me like the Beeb fell for a Phillips press release.

    It SOUNDS like what they're describing is a helical CT scanner, which are cool, but have been around for a while. The only real difference I could find in the article is that this one is about 22% faster than the others - an incremental improvement on existing technology.

    All the rest seemed to be misleading -- comparing x-ray exposure and speed to "the first CT scanners" for instance. Well duh, if your scanner isn't better than the first ones thirty years ago you'd better get out of the business.

  6. The future is spectroscopic X-ray imaging. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You are absolutely right. This is a standard multislice CT scanner. The fact that it is 256 slices, not the 64/128 that are the current state of the art, is small news. Philips have produced an incremental improvement. I think Toshiba even have a 256 near ready for clinical use. Its amazing the BBC fell for this. Its like announcing on the BBC that 8G flash-memory usb-drive will be the standard in 2 years time.

    From my post elsewhere in this article...

    The next big leap in X-ray imaging is likely to be X-ray spectography.

    This Philips scanner is really just an incremental change from previous machines. 64 and 128 slice machine have been out for a while. Moving to 256 is a standard incremental upgrade. It provides no new information over previous multislice CT scanners. Its just faster.

    The big push in 3D X-ray imaging is to record the tissue's response to across a range of x-ray energies. In its simplest form this can be done with Siemens dual energy CT scanner. In the more advanced forms its done using energy selective X-ray detectors. The analogy for visible light is to move from black and white photography to colour photography. Examples of energy selective detectors include CERN's Medipix detector. [wikipedia.org]

    This energy informationn is known to be useful for vascular studies (eg. dual energy angiography) and improved soft tissue contrast. Energy resolving X-ray imaging allow CT scanner to provide information closer to what MRI can do, but the speed and spatial resolution of X-ray.

  7. Re:This scan would make "House" episodes... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the end, it turns out she had been poisoning him with gold I've not watched House, but this sounds like nonsense. Gold is non-toxic. It is commonly used to decorate expensive desserts and has no ill effects when ingested. A couple of years ago someone brought a bottle of sparking wine to my New Year party which contained gold leaf which the bubbles picked up made dance in your glass. Gold is approved as a food additive in the EU as E175, so if you see E175 on the ingredients list you know it contains gold (although since it's only used for decoration you can probably tell more easily by looking at it).

    If this is the kind of thing it presents as fact, then I'm quite glad I don't watch it.

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