New CT Scan Reveals Inner Structures of Body in Exquisite Detail

[rgray222]

I find this new technology particularly fascinating. The things we will be able to learn in the coming years should boggle the mind.

Computed tomography (CT) is an excellent noninvasive technique to investigate bones and soft tissue structures in a patient. Unfortunately, sometimes imaging can be difficult, as any movement from the patient can result in images that are unclear and need to be redone. This is especially difficult when dealing with patients who are young children, mentally impaired, suffering from motor disease, or are in pain. To ensure these images are clear, these challenging patients may require sedation, which is not desirable. General Electronics sought to facilitate treatment of these patients and improve the imaging process in general with the development of the Revolution CT.


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CTs use a series of X-ray scans to create ‘slices’ of the patient’s body, which are then stacked to make a complete 3D representation. Depending on what part of the body needs to be scanned, the process can take up to half an hour, which is a long time to ask someone to remain perfectly still. Revolution CT, on the other hand, is able to complete scans in the amount of time it takes for a single heartbeat to elapse. This means that even wiggly patients, or those with erratic heartbeats, can be imaged in less than one second, with no sedation required.


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Source (http://www.shieldspirit.com/2015/01/ct-scan-images-new-generation.html)
[All images credited to: GE Healthcare]

[Sunny-side-up]

WOW!
Amazing, I won't a full body scan ;)

Every body's body becomes a visual artwork!

" years ago I was told I had 75% below bone density for my age, I didn't show up on X-Rays Doh! Maybe with this New Revolution CT I would actually see something haha.

[shadowstalker]

" years ago I was told I had 75% below bone density for my age I didn't show up on X-Rays
how did they measure that then???

[Sunny-side-up]

Hi shadowstalker I had to have DEXA-Scan

To detect subtle changes in bone density, doctors use an enhanced form of x-ray technology called dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).

Example info page:
http://www.xrayxpress.co.uk/services_bone-density.html?gclid=CNWCqvCktcMCFaofwwodhYoA6w

[DeDukshyn]

WOW!
Amazing, I won't a full body scan ;)

Every body's body becomes a visual artwork!

" years ago I was told I had 75% below bone density for my age, I didn't show up on X-Rays Doh! Maybe with this New Revolution CT I would actually see something haha.

Hope you are good now?

[DeDukshyn]

Human body is sooo amazing ... Knowing what I know being in the profession I am in ... Most of you have no clue how amazing the body is ... and the evidence that actually exists that the body is in at least some sense a reflection of the mind.

My manager (and this guy is from a very Big Pharma name -- he moved to natural health when he joined us) told me once about how for some autoimmune disease (I can't recall which), patients were often given a drug which suppressed certain immune reactions or something, which led the body to finding an alternate pathway to re-create the symptoms in defiance of the drug the patient was on which acted to keep the symptoms suppressed. What does this mean? To me it means nothing less than often, likely most often, our diseases are mental, emotional, or psychological -- and these step down into physical manifestations. Why else would the body bypass the positive results of a drug to continue to express the symptoms?? We have so much to learn still. Like Tesla said; once we give regard equally to the unseen as we do the seen, science will finally be at true service to man (paraphrased).

[rgray222]

Human body is sooo amazing ... (paraphrased).

I couldn't agree more. Studying the human body is a bit like thinking about the universe. Here are just a few facts that are hard to believe. For instance.

Your body produces 25 million new cells each second. Every 13 seconds, you produce more cells than there are people in the United States.
In one day, your blood travels 12,000 miles around your body. That’s four times the distance across the US from coast-to-coast.
In 30 minutes, the human body gives off enough heat to bring a gallon of water to the boil
With the 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside the average human body, you could circumnavigate Earth two and a half times.
If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

[DeDukshyn]

Human body is sooo amazing ... (paraphrased).

I couldn't agree more. Studying the human body is a bit like thinking about the universe. Here are just a few facts that are hard to believe. For instance.

Your body produces 25 million new cells each second. Every 13 seconds, you produce more cells than there are people in the United States.
In one day, your blood travels 12,000 miles around your body. That’s four times the distance across the US from coast-to-coast.
In 30 minutes, the human body gives off enough heat to bring a gallon of water to the boil
With the 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside the average human body, you could circumnavigate Earth two and a half times.
If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.


All so fascinating, but I find even more fascinating is that the human body is a nano assembler / de-assembler.

It can pull apart all kinds of molecules it finds from you food, and reassemble atoms to make new molecules for any purpose the body might have for them. The body works with about 6000 known molecules for proper function across the board, and it can assemble all of them as needed from about 30 some vitamins and minerals, which are required for proper functioning ... 6000+ molecules for all various chemical reactions that a human body needs to exist, all drawn from a mere 30 some molecules of input.

Frickin Amazing nano machine!!!

We think our brains are smart!! lol!! What we call "brain smarts" is actually "Ego smarts" --- a tiny fraction (the so called "10-ish percent") of what the human brain can interpret and apply from higher frequencies called instinct - the struggle is setting aside the ego, to allow instinct through our expressions ... I recall a guy in the old guiness book of records that could count thousands of circles drawn on a chalk board instantly -he was known as "the human computer" - he could calculate huge numbers faster than a computer by relying on instinct.

Here's another fact in light of rgray's post ...

http://gizmodo.com/an-83-000-processor-supercomputer-only-matched-one-perc-1045026757