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petermcneeleyyesterday at 4:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

I dont want CT scans of wearables. I want wearables that can do CT scans.


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Night_Thastusyesterday at 6:00 PM

That is not even close to feasible with today's level of technology, and will not be for quite some time.

cheschireyesterday at 4:46 PM

well, maybe wearables that provide some sort of internal visual scans. But with CT scans delivering 70 times the radiation of a typical x-ray, I think I'd prefer not wearing a portable chernobyl.

Maybe a wearable ultrasound instead?

edit: after a little informal side-searching after posting this, I've learned that people working at Chernobyl, not in the reactor directly, but elsewhere in the sprawling site received anywhere from 1 to 100 CT scans worth of radiation. The firefighters that were on the roof received anywhere from 100 to 1,600 CT scans worth of radiation.

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