Technology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

What's new? We've had such technology for decades, and at a very cheap price too! /s

> Such nanoparticles do not occur naturally in the human body and must be administered as markers

So if I’m reading this right, much like radioactive markers, these must be surgically implanted before they can capture the imaging? In other words, it’s not a direct replacement for MRI or X-ray imaging technologies, though it could potentially be safer for long term care patients that need frequent imaging.