Early detection

Hi all,

I know I haven't put up anything since just after Christmas, but I'm hoping that this will get me out of that rut. Since January, most of what I've been doing has been school related - I had mocks, then shortly after mock exams revision started, so school has (and will continue to, for another couple of months) taken over my life.

However, what I just saw was so amazing I felt compelled to write about it.

It's all to do with this article here. Basically, its a new method of early detection. The body is scanned with similar techniques to MRI, but with several resonant frequencies at the same time. This elicits a "song". This song tells researchers whether the tissue is healthy or diseased. However, and this is the bit that cannot be done by traditional MRI scans, it can also tell you the severity of the disease, as well as which disease it is. With a regular MRI, you would simply get a bright area on the scan which would have to be interpreted by a radiologist. With this technique, the analysis would be done by machine, using an algorithm similar to the one used for facial recognition.

As far as techniques go this one has amazing practicalities because it has the potential to be over in minutes and could well become part of an annual checkup, catching serious diseases like cancers, multiple sclerosis, heart disease etc earlier than would have before, and preventative measures can be taken.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4122518/magnetic-resonance-fingerprinting-explanation-disease-detection-research http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mri http://cwru-daily.com/news/new-mri-method-fingerprints-tissues-and-diseases-leading-to-earlier-quicker-diagnoses/