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by bead 2062 days ago
Current traditional brain health diagnostic procedures, like MRI and CT, are time consuming, emit radiation, expensive and access to the equipment and the results are time-delayed (i.e. 30-70 minutes). Importantly, patients have to be transported (sometimes over long distances) and admitted to a hospital or specialized medical centre (that has the equipment and highly qualified technical and medical personnel) before they can be diagnosed with a Brain Trauma. The medical industry is beckoning a quick, reliable and less expensive brain trauma diagnostic solution. What do you think about the developments in the field?
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There are plenty of problems with MRI, but ionising radiation is not one of them. A quick brain protocol (Siemens market “Go brain”) takes 5 minutes and gives very good image quality. Setting up the patient and removing them from the scanner takes longer.

A standard brain protocol of about 20 minutes is better, but the 5 minute protocol is good enough.

US as UltraSound, I think you should have said somewhere this is your neologism. Yes, contextually its understood. No, for a cold-reader, its a bit hidden.

I found typos. Glitz is good, but proofreading is better.

How can you identify brain trauma with ultrasound? The ultrasound waves cannot pass through the skull.
> How can you identify brain trauma with ultrasound?

Well, put enough energy through the ultrasound transducer and you can guarantee there's brain trauma present.

Not sure that's how you meant it, though ;)

it is a pre-diagnostics system. We dont go trough the skull, we are focused on monitoring trough the eyelid
I am almost certain this will fail.