From the frontlines to the frontier: CT trends and innovations

by Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | November 06, 2018

From the November 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

“It may be difficult to come up with a particular outcome measure that demonstrates the utility, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t benefits and that it’s not useful,” said Danton. “It just may be hard to measure.”

Many studies are currently underway to investigate this, but it may be a while before meaningful results are published.

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“My guess would be that for some procedures, it’s going to be very useful and for others maybe not so much, but figuring that out will take some time,” Danton concluded.

EDIT: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Caltech laser-sonic scanner could locate breast cancer tumors in "15 minutes" — we have updated the article to indicate that it can locate the cancer within 15 seconds.

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