Imaging

Color CT Scanner by Mars Imaging using Spectral Molecular Imaging
July 3, 2018 admin Comment

New Zealand based, Mars Imaging has released their color 3D CT-scanner that uses technology based on CERN technology developed in the search for the God particle at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. The new scanner was developed by Professors Phil and Anthony Butler from Canterbury and Otago Universities in New Zealand. Professors Butler are father and son, scientists, and creators of the new medial scanner. They’ve been working on this new scanner for the past ten years, and just now they’ve

NYT article on Radiation Concerns In Ortho Offices using Cone Beam CT-Scans
March 12, 2018 admin Comment

Because children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to radiation, doctors three years ago mounted a national campaign to protect them by reducing diagnostic radiation to only those levels seen as absolutely necessary. Not only do most dentists continue to use outmoded X-ray film requiring higher amounts of radiation, but orthodontists and other specialists are embracing a new scanning device that emits significantly more radiation than conventional methods, an examination by The New York Times has found. Some orthodontists now use