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stocktrader23 · 08-02-2010, 08:02 AM

Hundreds of people, multiple hospitals.

"To do that, GE offers a feature on its CT scanner that can automatically adjust the dose according to a patient?s size and body part. It is, a GE manual says, ?a technical innovation that significantly reduces radiation dose.?

At Cedars-Sinai and Glendale Adventist, technicians used the automatic feature ? rather than a fixed, predetermined radiation level ? for their brain perfusion scans.

But a surprise awaited them: when used with certain machine settings that govern image clarity, the automatic feature did not reduce the dose ? it raised it. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/he...pagewanted=all

08-02-2010, 08:02 AM
stocktrader23 Let's do some business. Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The dirty south. Posts: 18,781	Bald circle around your head, dizziness, memory loss? Just the hospital ODing you on radiation. Hundreds of people, multiple hospitals. "To do that, GE offers a feature on its CT scanner that can automatically adjust the dose according to a patient?s size and body part. It is, a GE manual says, ?a technical innovation that significantly reduces radiation dose.? At Cedars-Sinai and Glendale Adventist, technicians used the automatic feature ? rather than a fixed, predetermined radiation level ? for their brain perfusion scans. But a surprise awaited them: when used with certain machine settings that govern image clarity, the automatic feature did not reduce the dose ? it raised it. " http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/he...pagewanted=all