My dentist puts my x-rays into her data system. We can see them on the screen
in each examining room.> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:06:33 -0500> From:
[email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: [ot_caving] computer
news - medical related> > Here is a story about how a fancy desktop computer>
can be used in a real world application to replace a more advanced> special
purpose computer.> >
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/PC-supercomputer,5513.html> > It is related to
CT scans of the body. It is apparently more> common now for a> doctor to
diagnosis a patient after having a CT scan than it was a few> years ago.> >
Hopefully in 10 years, these scans will be much less expensive, and> it will be
more cost efficient to do scans sooner, than later when a problem> is
suspected.> > > > I was inserted into a CT scanner 2 weeks ago. I had 2 scans
in the> abdominal area - 1 without the iodine injection, and 1 with. And 2>
similar scans in the pelvis area.> I would have like to have had the lungs and
the head scanned, since I was> already in the machine with all the barium fluid
and iodine> injections, but that> would have been at least another 2 thousand
probably.> > David Locklear> >
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