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Re:First ever color X-ray on a human by randcraw on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:55PM (#17517025)
How much exposure to radiation is needed for this? Their brochure indicates 20-80 mGy/mSv. But a typical clinical head CT is only 2 mGy. AFAIK, exposures that high would not be acceptable for clinical human use.

It's probably inevitable that a 'spectral' scanner requires greater exposure than clinical CT scanners since the intensity of a spectral X-ray source apparently varies during the scan. This implies slower scans and more X-ray exposure than a conventional CT.

Apparently that's why MARS' current product is intended for preclinical (non-human) use only.

Re:First ever color X-ray on a human by klipt on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:37PM (#17518837)
I think regular CT already causes cancer in ~1/2000 uses. So 10x that dose would probably cause cancer in ~1/200 uses? That's pretty scary.
Re:First ever color X-ray on a human by smt88 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @07:54PM (#17519570)
That's assuming dosage has a linear relationship with instances of cancer. Scary regardless, though.