I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but this is just MRI with a new and different kind of tracer.
There will likely be some great clinical applications from this, but it’s not a game changer. It needs a big, expensive, superconducting magnet.
It’s also not radiation free (just like MR). It’s just ionizing radiation free.
> "Our iMPI scanner is so small and light that you can take it almost anywhere,” Vogel explains.
Obviously when they say “radiation free” they mean “ionizing radiation free”. The term “electromagnetic radiation” includes things like radio waves and visible light, not just high energy ionizing stuff like UV, x-rays, and gamma rays. Literally everything emits some amount of non-ionizimg radiation. Non ionizing EM is pretty harmless unless you have enough of it to cause heating/burns.
I wasn’t speaking to people like you when I explained radiation. I was speaking to everyone who can’t distinguish this from magic. You’ll also have to understand that tissue heating is a concern in some instances, as is “running around in a large magnetic gradient”. (Guess what happens?)
Vogel has something to sell. The whole article explicitly uses words that the lay public will misunderstand to attract attention in the popular press. This whole article is a puff piece. It’s based on real science, but it is not intended to give the reader an accurate picture of what he’s selling.
There are small MRs that you can move on the back of a semi or keep in a room adjacent to an OR. That’s what he’s saying when you translate this statement into something that remotely resembles the truth.
hasn’t the efficacy of this been called into question?
apparently, as a test, they scanned a business czar’s chest. it showed nothing.
then they scanned a politician’s head. again, nothing.
Very exciting.
Phone friendlier links: Archive.ph, Archive.org
Just wish I hadn’t opened that site in Safari on iPhone first, putting it in reader mode crashed it so hard I had to restart my phone.
this could be a big life saver if it’s small, cheap and safe enough for doctors offices to have so they can triage patients and quickly refer them to hospital when needed rather than having to book an appointment for a scan. Could even become a standard part of a routine medical check-up to test for signs of aortic aneurysms or similar, that could be a huge life saver.
from what they say i wonder if it’ll be useful tied to a machine able to do near-autonomous endovascular surgery? that could really help reduce surgery wait times and improve a lot of peoples lives.
How long until the TSA gets ahold of this so they can inspect the inside of my colon on top of just having picture perfect images of my genitals?
