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.
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.
Sounds like it works fine then
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.
I wish the article touched on the nano particles more… like, what happens to them after you’re done? Are they dissolved or expelled (or do they pile up in various parts of the body and cause chronic issues…)?
