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...found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus. When Carter's team tried to remove the mummy, they found that it had become stuck to the innermost coffin. Unfortunately, their solution was to cut out the mummy, which damaged it extensively. The CT scans enabled scientists to distinguish that damage from injuries Tut suffered when he was alive...
Prepping the ER is a simple business; there is not much to get ready. Apart from their stethoscopes, the only diagnostic tool available to the surgeons is a Soviet-era X-ray machine. Ultrasound equipment? No. CT scans? No. MRI? No. There are two thoracic surgeons for chest wounds, the most common kind of injury in bomb blasts, but the hospital lacks the equipment needed to perform actual surgery. Pleas for funds and tools have been ignored by an Iraqi health ministry that doctors say is underfunded, mismanaged and corrupt. "There are days when we don't even have enough...
...second hot-button issue this case presents is the issue of patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Patients in PVSs, sadly, do not appear to be unaware, even though they are. A CT scan of Schiavo’s brain (available at http://www.miami.edu/ethics/schiavo/CT%20scan.png) reveals that the majority of her brain is liquefied. But, sadly, to a hopeful parent, movements and sounds can indicate some sort of response rather than reflex. Cases involving PVSs—and there are many—often are difficult for precisely that reason...
...Brown used computerized tomography (CT) scans and computer imagery to make the Morwood team's cast of the skull. He claims the crude cast-making method that damaged the skull is illegal. "It's a bit like some scholar went to the British Museum and stole the Rosetta Stone and made a copy of it, trashed the original in doing it - then had the only copy,'' he says. Jacob denies that any damage was done to the bones in his lab - or even that a cast has been made. "(The Australians) blame us for everything," he says. "They think they...
...diabetes--has helped doctors in the past, but it's not perfect. By combining the Framingham scores with advanced heart-imaging technology, scientists have found, physicians can significantly improve their ability to identify patients at risk. Known as the coronary-artery calcium score, the imaging data come from specialized CT scans of heart vessels that pick up calcium deposits around which plaques can form...