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Digital XRays
The locally available medical technology has taken a jump in the past year. Both my dentist and the mammography department at the local hospital are now using digital x-ray camera instead of film. This gives them much clearer images: the computer can get the focus exactly right. The new mammography system is supposed to see through fibrocystic tissue a lot better than the old one, too.
It also gives faster turnaround on the images, of course. At the end of my mammogram this morning the technician showed me the pictures she had taken, after she emailed them to the radiologist. They looked nice and clear to me. This is good. They should not need followup untrasounds or whatever to decide on my status.
The technician was very nice. She did the right-side lateral imaging in two shots instead of one to allow for the fact that the tissue on that side is stiff from being cooked by the radiation treatments. That side just doesn't compress well.
My dentist showed me the images from the digital bite-wings, too, when he was discussing what they had found. He just swung the screen he was using to view them around so I could look at it too.
I still want vise-free Star Trek medical scanners for mammograms, though. The new systems don't hurt quite as badly as the old ones did, but that is not saying a whole lot.
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