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This is cool, but as a medical physics student, it has been repeatedly emphasized to me that CT scans are extremely dangerous and usually considered the "imagin
by scythe 7y ago
This is cool, but as a medical physics student, it has been repeatedly emphasized to me that CT scans are extremely dangerous and usually considered the "imaging of last resort" when no other method is appropriate. The risk of cancer from a single CT scan can vary from 0.01%-0.4%, bringing it near the risk of death from COVID-19:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4635397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4635397/
> An estimated 1 in 270 women who underwent a coronary angiography CT at age 40 will develop cancer from that CT (1 in 600 men), compared with an estimated 1 in 8,100 women who had routine head CT at the same age (1 in 11, 080 men).
CT scans might just be the worst possible way to detect the coronavirus.