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more on cone beam CT... surgical applications. i've posted earlier on it here with respect to head and ENT applications viat the american journal of neuroradiology articles -- of which the portable CT article discuss high and low contrast imagery...just click my moniker and you can get to that post under my name.

but, everyone's gotta look at this commercial product available...and think to yourself -- wow the DViS could make this obsolete...

the link is embedded in my post i'm posting here which i'm "borrowing" from the yahoo thread...

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i think DViS does not do 32 or 64... the 16 slice was the industry standard for a long time. the advantage of more slices is that smaller things could be detected...

however, what i don't know is if future models may.

likewise, here's an interesting thing:

there's an ED (emergency department) in a hospital in florida... it has the Siemen's Somaton Sensation CT scanner...this particular scanner is configured to be a 32 slice MSCT, although the model was available, a few years ago at the time of purchase, as either a 32 slice or 64 slice.

16 slice will be ample for surgical intent... and i gotta pause and link this article...

again wait'll they get ahold of the DViS

http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/1051-0443/PIIS1051044309003236.pdf

i would image that the DViS would make this direction obsolete.


back to slices:

sure there are advantages and disadvantages...but, i wonder if a 32 slice DViS would be plausible... for example, Hitachi, i believe, has the capacity to scan in 64 slice and reconfigure either way, 32 or 64.

my biomedical engineer states that computing power (i.e., via silicon chip technology) is doubling every 18 months, what i don't know is if that would be noteworthy to be applicable here.

also, similarly interesting, that same hospital in florida upgraded its MRI scanner to a Siemens’ MAGNETOM Harmony 1.0 T (tesla). most people would laugh at that 1.5 tesla could be considered the industry scanner of superconducting MRI's (there are different types)...a high-field magnet is 3.0 tesla. what was upgraded was the software...

regardless this is the hospital's MRI.

there are some types of MRIs which are "low" field but enable weight bearing applications... the issue here though is that it take a lot of electricity to run and images aren't as pretty as the higher field strengths. but, we send a lot of people to it because it is the ultimate open MRI at this time... important for claustrophic patients. it is by FONAR, the company of the guy who invented the MRI.