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sophiecentaur
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JT Smith said:Why would people go to the effort of building simpler, less expensive, portable MRIs for remote or third world use if ultrasound was as effective in most cases?
Two comments here. firstly, it appears that a portable MRI scanner can be ten times the cost of an ultrasound unit. Secondly, I can't find any references to portable MRI scanners earlier than 2023 - so it's new tech. Maybe, in a few years' time, things will be different.
Meanwhile, every (?) woman in the UK has access to an ultrasound scan and it can be done on a home visit. How many women are given an MRI scan for a routine progress scan? ultrasound has proved its worth. There is rightly a strong resistance to arbitrary changes in medicine but ultrasound is gaining ground in its use for examinations of soft tissue.
Maybe we'll get a comment from someone with real experience of imaging???