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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"x-rays are dangerous they screw with your organs"
Some of us screw with our organs a lot already. - sublunary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yum. Radiation.
- lostinthefire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1see now this is quality tech news..not like paper bookmarks... good find, and an interesting read
+digg - dr_benway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the "new" is all in the software and digital image processing...
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2human.google.com?
- Brereton55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1x-rays are dangerous they screw with your organs
- crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0X-ray is the future to the cure of cancer.
- dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Paper bookmarks are so usefull though! Totally tech! Just think about all those extra pages that get spit out from your inkjet/laserprinter... Now you have a use for them.
That's why dot matrix with tractor feed will always be the way to go... No paper jams...
...or not. - Brereton55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ultrasounds are much safer
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Methinks Reliant must be talking about a very different kind of X-Ray machine.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's awesome..
- CaptRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was actually in Germany for a class on these machines. Got a couple of hospitals already preordred and going to start installing them soon.
- drudometkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm an x-ray tech and i'll tell you, they come out with CT scanners every year that are twice as fast as the last years model.
- Digisurfer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is pretty damn cool. Digg from me. Too bad it's so hard to convince the doctors where I live to send me for tests like these. I'm sure a CT scan would clearly show what is wrong. Hey! They should consider building coin operated versions of this and putting it in malls. ;-)
- kinderstod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"human.google.com?"
hahah that was funnier than it should have been heh - CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool ***** yo
nice application VOXEL graphics rendering - BuZzBuZz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great Article, My work recently purchased a Siemens Somatom Sensation 64 Slice CT scanner, glad to see medical tech gets outdated as fast as computer tech, lol
- J_Omega, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"X-rays screw with your organs"
Actually, they "screw" with your cells - including non-organ things like bone and blood. - jedijome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how is different from helical ct scanners and the 64 slice scanners and what not that theyalready have. with the exception of a secondary xray source it's the same thing. that's probably not such a good thing considering the massive amounts of radiation you're already getting from a CT scan.
- Burner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is the coolest thing since... the sandwich (I was gonna say sliced bread, but thats too cliched.
- stooma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea, seimens scanners put out some nice images. The main advantage of this thing is for cardiac CTA which is of great interest to the cardiologists. I suspect that there is no great improvement over 3rd or 4th generation scanners when looking at non-moving body parts. I wish they posted some axial cuts instead of the recons... might actually have to go to the seimens site and check it out.
- wolfkeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some of the above comments suggest that the scanner is doubling the x-ray dose. Of course that's not true, since the scan is over in half the time. So twice the power for half the time == same dose.
- Genghis1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0personal computers and game machines are low tech compared to
new medical technology - DoctorYoshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with Bertl and others. This is nothing new. Multi-detector CT scans with 3D reconstruction has been around for several years now.
- bikeham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with DoctorYoshi and Bertl and others. Those excellent Xray glasses sold in comic book ads have been around for years and beat this thing hands down.
- Reddwarfusa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And the maintenance cost of this system is around double due to the tube costs. Most CT scanners can do .25 secs per revolution now (that's 240rpm!!) so how much faster do you want?? I know that the costs are outweighing the perceived benefits on a lot of these.
- human01, on 02/16/2009, -0/+0Awesome post.X-rays are the future to cure the cancer.I think this new machine helps a lot.......
http://www.niton.com/ - imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0those pics are amazing!!
- bikeham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Become an X-ray tech and get more exposure to the public, then see what develops :)
- icarus41, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is old news... GE is testing a new CT scanner at Froedert Hospital in Wauwatosa, WI that can do 128 slices at a time using four scanning heads.
- CaptRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0jedijome, actually the amount of exposure you would get would be the same as the study that this is replaceing. Here is what I mean by this.
Currently the gantry that holds the tube and detector can only spin so fast with current motors, and already that is pretty damn fast, but not fast enouph to scan the heart while its beating. Remember in order for a CT scan to have clarity the part that they are scanning has to have very little movement.
In order to get a picture of the heart the patient needs to be doped so that their heart rate is much slower, and the gantry can complete a 180 degree scan before the patients heart beats.
What Siemens has done to address this problem is add a second tube and detector onto the same gantry (its harder than is sounds). Now instead of having to scan 180 degrees to get an image, the system only needs to scan 90 degrees.
That gantry CAN move 90 degrees before the patients next heartbeat. This meants that we can now take an image of the heart without dopeing the patient up. Its faster for the hospital and less drugs that have to introduced to the patient.
The images from this machine are really amazing. And while its not a revolution in CT, its definately an evolution, and a sign of the way things are going. - Bistromaths, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Aw, dammit, I wanted to post this story. Damned sleeping patterns.
- buddyfarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Become an X-ray tech and get more exposure to the public, then see what develops :)"
Bikeham, that was funny...and I dont even work in radiology... - BloodyNub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm a PACS engineer and I just assisted in installing a site's 64 slice Toshiba scanner. I agree that the images coming from this thing are amazing. We are taking 2000 slice series in a matter of 30 seconds. The detail in the images is like nothing I've ever seen. By the way, those images in the article are reconstructions....the initial images look like you sliced open a swiss cake roll. It takes a computer chewing on data some time to produce those, so they're not in real time.
- RandomInsano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0'If we use two, then it'll be twice as fast!" forward thinking at it's finest.
"They should consider building coin operated versions of this and putting it in malls."
I can only imagine the people suing for the mall machine making them steril. - wiredclimber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0drudometkin: Get a real job.
- gamemaster357, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yes 1st 10 Posts
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0wtf is this *****? i want tech news, like articles where people say X360 is better then the PS3... not some ***** spam about some stupid x-ray crap.. GTFO --- NO DIGG. Marked for deletion....
- Reliant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Demonstrators must seek police consent for any protest around Westminster under the new law introduced in August. If she just asked permission and signed whatever papers, it would have been just fine.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0wtf is this *****? i want tech news, like articles where people say X360 is better then the PS3... not some ***** spam about some stupid x-ray crap.. GTFO --- NO DIGG. Marked for deletion.
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