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I really wanted to make a career in tomography. But had only one elective from another department and didn't know how to make it into this stream.
Be interested to know if this is related to the same process/technology that Midjourney announced last week[0]<p>0. <a href="https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost" rel="nofollow">https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost</a>
Unpaywalled link to the paper: <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/ef7ae3bff634710f871241ac8a513d72ad32688d" rel="nofollow">https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/ef7ae3bff634710f87124...</a><p>This is similar only in using an array of off-axis ultrasound tomography receivers but otherwise unrelated in that it's a serious publication with detailed information demonstrating potential medical utility. Near as I could tell, Midjourney Medical is an idea for a trendy spa treatment dressed up to look sci-fi cool. It's based on a repackaging of 40 of the exact same chip in Butterfly's handheld, full contact USB pocket-sized scanner which plugs into a mobile phone and is already available.<p>The CalTech team who wrote the Nature paper appears to be using an array of Olympus transducers equipped with their own custom lenses and a rotating emitter. Notably, the CalTech paper is focused on evaluating potential clinical benefits.
Relevant article:<p>Scanning the Body with Sound<p><a href="https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scanning-the-body-with-sound" rel="nofollow">https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scanning-the-body-with-so...</a>
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