Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tricorder was able to tell if someone was pregnant…c’mon now.
If you’re asking how feasible is a handheld device with a shitton of sensors? Fairly doable. Providing sustainable energy to something like that with current tech…not so much.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I guess the portable part is less what I was interested in than the possibility of being able to diagnose more things just by waving some sensors over the body instead of needing to cut someone open or stick a camera in them or take some blood, etc.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In that realm, there’s not a whole lot we can without actual touch with current tech.
We have handheld Portable X-Rays that are about the size of an old digital camera, but you’d probably want something with the resolution of an MR, and the smallest of those at current is about the size of a large trashcan (which is still pretty cool).
If you include basic contact with the device, we can detect Blood Oxygen, Glucose, 12-lead equivalent EKG, some hormones, some infections (rapid detection for cutaneous), and some level of internal imaging with handheld Ultrasound (low-res but live).
SGforce@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m going to make a ton of assumptions here about how it’s supposed to work but;
Some phones have the ability to recreate 3d spaces using infrared and a lot of data points. www.3dmag.com/…/phone-3d-scanning-lidar-iphone-3d…
SGforce@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Now assume we have the ability to both transmit and easily detect quantum particles and their attributes.