Re: Finding cancer with 3D (not for the squeamish)

[P3D Schenectady Radiology <mlburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have some familiarity with this process.  As a radiologist, I have
performed this procedure several times.  

The procedure involves doing a routine CT scan, then the software "stacks
up"  the individual CT slices and allows the operator to change the point
of view as desired, from outside the body to a point inside the body.  It
is not viewed with LCD or other glasses.  It is not "3D"  but I really
cant fault a reporter for using the phrase, as the motion effect on the
fly through gives that impression.   

BTW that fly through is only possible after a trained person has
laboriously plotted the path which the point of view follows through the
colon, a process which may take hours.

Michael Burke, M.D.


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