The Daily Blog Open Mic – 8th June 2023
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New development in MRI – everyone is into it. It’s going to be good eh – make life easier when diagnosing body troubles. But more and more tech!
http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/5/417381
1/6 New Zealand researchers develop magnet for world-first portable MRI scanner – Victoria University of Wellington
There is money in it. Yummy money in NZ.
30/8/22 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473734/bullish-investors-pour-1b-into-new-radiology-services-in-a-year
Colin Hutchison used to work in public hospitals. Now he is opening private hospitals – one already open, one to go. Both will have full radiology suites – Dr Hutchison read the signs…
and on google –
5/6 https://www.massdevice.com/fda-clears-ge-healthcare-ai-tech-mri/
and
23/5 https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/new-mri-scanning-technology-improve-clinical-accessibility-and-advance-lung-disease-diagnosisand
and
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/06/02/nvision-imaging-quantum-tech-allows-mri-imaging-to-show-metabolism-gone-awry-fight-cancer
and
https://www.itnonline.com/content/university-minnesota-developing-compact-and-portable-mri-scanner
If I didn’t put this link before I think I should take the chance of a second go – it is worth a look though from 2009.
Jan.1/2009 https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-truth-machine
Knowing for certain when someone is lying is the stuff of dystopian science fiction – and the hope of cops and spies around the world.
And, if some aggressive technology entrepreneurs get their way, the technology will become a reality, coming soon to courts and interrogation rooms near you.
What makes this possible is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which has already transformed the world of neuroscience. …
Steven J. Laken, founder of Cephos – whose corporate motto is “Our Business Is the Truth,” and whose mission statement reads, “We believe Truth is among the most valuable of commodities” – claims a 93 percent success rate in determining truth-telling from lying. (Humans are typically able to tell the difference between truth and lies about 50 percent of the time, and traditional lie detector machines average around 85 percent.)…
Jonathan Moreno, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense, estimates that at least 50 U.S. labs began studying the use of neuroscience and lie detection after 9/11, many of them funded by the Department of Defense.
“There’s enormous pressure coming from the government for this,” says Paul Root Wolpe, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. “There is reason to believe a lot of money and effort is going into creating these technologies.” ,,,