Replies to post #31660 on Imaging Diagnostic Systems (fka IMDS)

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The problem with that theory

Is the CTLM has been sold and is available worldwide for over a decade. Most machines fall into disuse or are returned. Never are there subsequent customers within a country.

If the device had any usefullness, it would be used. It would be sold.

The machine is not unknown. They've had no less than 40 distributors over the years. That's a multiple of the amount of machines actually sold. IMDS had $$ at one time. They were not always broke, they were well funded. $100 million spent over the years. IMDS has gone to RSNA every year for 15 or so years, the US's premier radiological convention. Arab Health for a decade. EuroMedical. Australia. Asia.

As I mentioned before, the foremost college of Laser's is BecKman Laser insititute of UC Irvine. IMDS has drawn people from them, they have IMDS employees working for them. Not a peep about IMDS there.

The machine is a great theory, but it does not work reliably in practice.

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I was with you up to your point about the FDA. It's unfounded. They do their job. This POS contraption can't cut it. It's that simple. The FDA's job is to identify SNAKE OIL inventions and NOT approve them. That's why there's a clearly defined process to go through that EVERY company must adhere to that wants to market in the US.

IMDS has FAILED in every way imaginable in that process. The FDA had nothing to do with their failure. It was simply mis-mananaged by IMDS, and perhaps purposely. They don't want it known that it doesn't work. If it did work, as SMF alluded to, the demand from the installed base would be overwhelming. Think about that. Why isn't it??

Why haven't they hired a REAL third party to evaluate the product?

Why have the studies done shown about a 50% accuracy rate between false positives and false negatives?

It's simple. It doesn't work.

It's great to dream about the need and something to fulfill it, but the CTLM is not it.

The only GREED here is on the part of the GRABLES, and you helped their cause. I hope you got a holiday card. I check the mailbox, and I didn't get mine.

19 years and over $125M and NOTHING to show for it. They should be ashamed, but alas, they have no concious just as liars like them don't.