A medical scanner device is common on TV science fiction shows (such as Star Trek) where a future physician can wave the device over a patient and acquire a complete medical readout. Although such a device is probably not practical (or is it?) with present day technology, a medical diagnostic bed might be possible by extrapolating conventional medical imaging and remote sensing into the near future. • Discuss the present state of the art of medical imaging.
• What areas of anatomy and physiology of the human body are not imaged or imaged poorly at present?
• What sort of advances in medical imaging would be necessary to develop the sickbay diagnostic bed? What impact would such a device have on biological and medical fields?
Sample Solution
