A breakthrough in medical technology was recently announced at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America held on 24th November in Chicago. The Explorer, a scanner captures a dynamic total body scan in 3D, in 20 to 30 seconds, which reduces the exposure to harmful radiation, nearly 40 times smaller than in current Scanners and x-ray machines in the market. It is also able to track the progression of disease like tumors in Cancer because shorter exposure to radiation allows repeated studies in an individual. The future applications will be to study diseases caused by inflammation and metabolic and immunological disorders. Its capability to quantitatively track the movement of blood flow and delivery of drugs and glucose through the blood stream inside the body with precision will open up clinical studies to develop and evaluate efficacy of new drug therapies.
View the demonstration of this amazing feat:
Developed in collaboration with University of California- Davis’s R&D team of Professor Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi, and United Imaging Healthcare, a Shanghai based company, Explorer expects to begin human trials in early summer of 2019 in hospital setting.
United Imaging Healthcare has recently established U.S. based head-quarter in Houston, Texas which will conduct R&D and manufacture these machines. Additionally, it has established additional R&D facilities in Cleveland, OH and Concord, CA. According to Standard and Poor’s Global Market Intelligence, the Shanghai based company currently serves 2,700 hospitals worldwide.