[saulrh]

Being able to use this around metal is also huge. It means you can use it on patients with metal implants or bullets in them, to guide surgery in real-time, in the surgical suite, at the same time as other medical instruments, at the patient's bedside instead of in a dedicated room that you have to transport the patient to, etc.

[ohbleek]

This is even more evident in the time of Covid. Currently Covid patients have to do imaging at the very end of the day so Covid sanitizing protocols don’t have to be repeated over and over all day. It may seem minor but delaying imaging can delay other procedures and therapies for an entire day. Having the option to transport the equipment instead of the patient has many clear benefits.

[_qua]

People with metal implants and bullets can often still have MRIs with some additional screening/safety measures. There may be advantages to operating under live MRI guidance but I'm not aware of any research on that. Even with low fields, you still would get artifact from having metal near your target of imaging.

[IshKebab]

Difficult to use this in real time given the acquisition time is about 5 minutes!

[saulrh]

That's entirely fair, yeah. Still much faster than closing the patient back up so you can drive them to imaging!