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mhhf1ve
5/9/2016 7:05:30 PM
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Re: Reality check?
That's a very good link, there, but I'm still quite skeptical of the prediction that a "hand held MRI" is not far from becoming a reality. Perhaps I haven't kept up on the developments in high-magnetic-field-generating devices, but I thought there was a good reason why MRI machines required their own room and trained technicians to operate and maintain them.
Maybe there's better signal processing hardware that doesn't require such a high magnetic field to produce high resolution MRI data? Hmm. I'll have to look into that....
But ultimately, I think Facebook is going to need someone with different skills to promote the Oculus product going forward so that it can become a consumer device. Developing a new tool is much different from building market adoption and educating people in how to use it....
Facebook investing in VR tech is pretty forward-thinking, and I hope it pans out. But I personally don't see the value in it yet from the few demos I've encountered. I remember when Silicon Graphics was making cool 3D visualization tools with glasses that flickered in sync with a monitor to beam stereovision at a user's eyes in real time...
Ariella
5/9/2016 8:12:01 PM
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Re: Reality check?
@mhhf1ve Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, the man behind the Butterfy Network believes it's possible. He must have been fairly convincing for investors who came up with $100 million in funding for his company in 2014. See https://www.technologyreview.com/s/532166/with-100-million-entrepreneur-sees-path-to-disrupt-medical-imaging/:
"I set out to make a super-low-cost version of this $6 million machine, to make it 1,000 times cheaper, 1,000 times faster, and a hundred times more precise."
Rothberg claims there's a "secret sauce" to Butterfly's technology, but he won't reveal it. But it may have as much to do with clever device and circuit design as overcoming the physical limits and manufacturing problems that CMUT technology has faced so far.
mpouraryan
5/9/2016 11:47:15 PM
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Re: facebook exec
The challenge, @batye, is for all to realize the lessons. In the quest to "grow", some may end up forgetting--and those who do not learn and embrace the lessons of history are bound to repeat it. The tech Graveyard is full of it--including Blackberry--right?
mpouraryan
5/9/2016 11:48:57 PM
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Re: 'tever
It is still a developing concept and not truly ready for "prime time"--no question. I wonder whether those who embrace Augmented Reality will get a leg up?
mpouraryan
5/9/2016 11:50:50 PM
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Re: facebook exec
Time will tell--whether they stay "paranoid" is the key. I am sure a lot of folks miss Andy Grove today as they seem to have forgotten his ultimate admonition as Intel got left in the "dust" during the transformation that we've all been witness to.
batye
5/10/2016 1:58:49 AM
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Re: facebook exec
@mpouraryan Blackberry bended over trying to be nice to everyone who have power... but for the eyes of the law we are all = ... or don't we... BB paid the price at the end...
mhhf1ve
5/10/2016 7:47:10 PM
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Re: Reality check?
> "Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, the man behind the Butterfy Network believes it's possible"
Oh. Yah, miniaturized ultrasound is totally possible. Ultrasound technology doesn't have that many requirements, and the signal processing for it is very mature.
*MRI* tech, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast. High field magnets and flipping the nuclear spins of atoms is still a pretty tricky thing to do (looking at changes in a "parts per million" range or less). Making a handheld or wearable MRI machine is going to be a real breakthrough -- and I'm not sure the science even exists yet.
I think I vaguely recall there being a "different kind" of magnetic resonance that relied more on the radio pulses instead of the magnetic field... but... that's a kind of MRI that isn't even used at all, as far as I know. So making a miniturized version might be possible, but they'd first have to make it work to produce images that could be interpreted by medical professionals....
mhhf1ve
5/10/2016 7:51:25 PM
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Re: Reality check?
I actually wonder if the product that Mary Lou Jepsen will work on isn't simply an "augmented reality" way to display regular MRI data? Making an actual miniature MRI machine is an incredibly difficult project, but maybe they've got something in the works that truly is amazing -- producing localized high magneitc fields without superconducting materials....
mhhf1ve
5/10/2016 7:56:44 PM
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Re: 'tever
> "Making the advances in medical imaging of the last 40 years easily available at the small-and-remote clinic level certainly qualifies as a shrewd business initiative."
Remote medicine is going to be a huge business -- if any patient can been "virtually" seen by doctors with highly speciailized training. It doesn't look like we're training enough doctors, so the demand for specialized medicine is going to just grow as people are aware that the medical technology exists -- and that patients can live longer and better lives with the right treatments.
Ariella
5/10/2016 8:30:20 PM
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Re: 'tever
mhhf1ve telemedicine is an important development. In this article, it's called, " one of the biggest digital health care trends in 2015,"
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