I'm on the design team for this product.<p>In the CT "super premium" market, the major players focused on different specs and tried to convince hospitals that the future of CT was in this direction (volume/slices/coverage, temporal resolution/cardiac, dose, new imaging/spectral, spatial resolution). Revolution CT is GE's attempt to deliver something that unifies on these goals and they hope to sweep this high end market.
This sort of thing is so exciting. I was at the Hunterian (<a href="https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian" rel="nofollow">https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian</a>) last year and it's incredible to see how barbaric fixing (or trying to fix) someone was - and how far it's come in 100 years. Which I hope is much the same as our descendants will be thinking about medicine and surgery now.
That looks very impressive. However, I ask how effective this machine actually is on a medical level. Do these scans provide an advantage over traditional CT scans in that they collect more information? Are they more accurate?<p>The reason I ask this is because I as a layperson am of course very impressed by the colored, realistic-looking, detailed textured scans -- but will this actually make a difference for a medical/clinical purpose? Will this enable doctors to make better decisions/assessments?<p>I suspect it will, so I'm very pleased with this innovation. I also note that it might provide more fodder for medical image recognition programs. This tool, combined with good computer vision and analytics, could be very powerful indeed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this just looks like a modern CT scan. Impressive, of course, but definitely not a revolution. These machines have been steadily improving for thirty years.
Medical imaging is a really interesting field.<p>Place I do a lot of work with are working on new imaging systems to map human organs like the heart.<p>While back featured by the BBC here: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27536599" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27536599</a><p>I only do web stuff but I love chatting to them about their systems when i can
This is actually quite impressive!<p>I wonder how much time it takes to scan one person?<p>If these were made and distributed to enough hospitals adn scan is fast/cheap enough, I'm guessing you could make things quite more efficient/accurate
Thes 3d scans are very pretty when visualized in an oculus rift: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGBRsV9omw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGBRsV9omw</a>
tumblr is blocked where I work, here's an imgur link of the image in question <a href="http://imgur.com/9XZgzGv" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/9XZgzGv</a>
What's with the fake colors?<p>later edit: dear downvoters, you only get gray levels from a CT and those pretty colors assigned after what I assume is automated segmentation don't improve the diagnosis. I'd guess that any segmentation errors make the visualization more difficult.