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Helping Hand

A burst of X-rays fired at a cadaver’s hand – passing through the skin at 186,000 miles per second, invisible to the eye but casting a black and grey pattern around white bones dense enough to absorb the radiation. Standard X-ray radiography scans, usually known as 'X-rays' (like the one of the left here) are commonplace in hospitals, where they’re used to spot broken bones. Yet minor fractures are sometimes missed, especially when surrounding soft tissue is dense enough to appear similarly coloured to bone. While this hand has no bone breaks, it’s helping to test a different technique – photon-counting dual-energy radiography – where an algorithm helps to distinguish bone (middle left) from surrounding tissue (middle right), presenting a more complete, overlaid picture (right). Radiologists found this more informative than X-rays alone, potentially helping to spot subtle bone injuries that, left untreated, may otherwise lead to conditions like arthritis.

Written by John Ankers

Image from work by Stefanie Beck and Thorsten Sellerer, and colleagues

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Klinikum Rechts Der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Image originally published under a Creative Commons Licence (BY 4.0)

Published in Scientific Reports, August 2020

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Radiologists Groan as Storm Paradoxically Causes Lights to Turn On

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MENLO PARK, NJ—An unusually intense electrical storm this morning produced a prolonged power surge at Menlo Park Memorial Hospital (MPMH), ...

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9 years in the past, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton despatched shock waves by way of drugs by declaring it “simply fully apparent” that AI would make radiologists extinct in brief order. Quick-forward and the specialists — who do greater than analyze pictures — are thriving, observes The New York Occasions. Actually, the sphere is experiencing explosive progress amid a looming workforce disaster. (In…