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by joshmarinacci 340 days ago
If more people want MRIs then the market will create more machines. And hopefully the tech will improve over time, though we might be waiting for room temperature superconductors for real progress.

Lack of staff to analyze the results is a problem, but not a huge one. Simply having a baseline to compare for later scans is valuable by itself, without any detailed analysis of the original.

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Unsurprisingly, AI is now being used for MRI, both to make the data better and help analyze the results:

https://openmedscience.com/transforming-magnetic-resonance-t...

Compensating for patient movements (heartbeats, breathing, etc) seems really useful!

The American medical association will fight tooth and nail to avoid solving the real issue