• PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      "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.