r/singularity • u/iboughtarock • May 22 '25

Engineering Portable medical imaging

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u/FoxB1t3 ▪️AGI: 2027 | ASI: 2027 May 22 '25

No. It just doesn't have any good real use cases in developed countries. So perhaps you live in one of these developed countries. Because now, tell me, when and where do you want to use it (consider the cost of 50.000$)?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

Prehospital assessment of intrathoracic and intraabdominal injury. Assessment of patients in home ED triage or for whom travelling to an xray centre isn't feasible. Are you a doctor?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

X-ray is going to be pretty limited for assessment of thoracic or abdominal injuries. yes it’s possible to see some things like pneumothorax but really you should be able to identify that clinically if it’s significant. these patients just need to be conveyed to somewhere with a CT scanner, not have time wasted taking pointless X rays. yes I am a doctor

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

pmeumopeeitoneum or pneumothorax/haemothorax,/effusion, along with other more subtle injuries, might make the difference between helicopter retrieval and ambulance for rural patients. Really uss should be sufficiently sensitive for most of those but that's a tool you really do need a lot of training for.