New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer than MRI

Re:New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer tha... by Starkus on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:45PM (#22750709)

As someone that was shot in the neck and I have metal that cannot go through an MRI machine... will this be my savior?

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Re:New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer tha... by ebg13 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:44PM (#22751445)

As someone with metal implants, my experience is that metal causes extreme scattering in CT imagery which makes the modality often useless if you need to get anywhere near the site even with state-of-the-art computational filtering techniques. So I guess it depends on how much metal is still in there and where you need to look.

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Re:New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer tha... by cgh on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:02PM (#22750936)

We are all stuck at home and therefore you cannot just drop this comment without elaborating.

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Re:New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer tha... by ebg13 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:43PM (#22751436)

> you cannot just drop this comment without elaborating

That's false.

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Re:New X-ray technique images soft-tissue tumors clearer tha... by Starkus on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:41AM (#22804201)

What is needed? I get shot, I have metal, I have not decided to operate to remove it. Life goes on

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