Lemos aqui, que "Buried alive. That's what Deborah Morgan's friends said she'd feel like when she went into the MRI tube. Just the thought made her cry". Ou seja, havia (há) quem se sentisse em claustrofobia quando entrava num tubo de um ressonancia magnética.Agora, a situação vai mudar, conforme a mesma notícia, "Soon she was in a recently installed upright MRI, which lets a patient sit while being scanned".
Mas, os avanços não se ficam por aqui, "Without wielding a scalpel, doctors can increasingly see clearly down to the millimeter what's wrong. They can find tumors, tears and clots, tell whether that chemotherapy treatment you just started will work. They can do virtual colonoscopies and lung cancer screenings before a disease shows symptoms". Mais uma autentica revolução na saúde. E a notícia conclui com esta idéia "Changes in CTs - short for computed tomography - are coming particularly fast. CT machines use special X-ray scans to capture "slices" of the body's insides, then computer-process that information to develop a cross-section of organs and tissues". Agora é assim "In the beginning, there were one-slice machines. Then two-slice. Four. Sixteen. Thirty-two. And now, 64 (with 128 and 256 on the way). The more slices, the better and faster the picture".
Mas, há sempre um outro lado: os custos. E verificamos isto, ainda na mesma notícia, "Between 1999 and 2004 , the number of MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, scans and CT scans done in South Hampton Roads jumped by 80 percent, according to a recent report by the Eastern Virginia Health Systems Agency".
