The NBA's insurance company has refused to cover Deng's six-year, $71m£35m5m) contract while he is on national duty, citing scans of a back injury he suffered last season.
But it was only in June, in a murder case in Pune, in Maharashtra State, that a judge explicitly cited a scan as proof that the suspect's brain held "experiential knowledge" about the crime that only the killer could possess, sentencing her to life in prison.
Similarly, the 2011 NCCN guidelines cited evidence that PET scanning has a high false-negative rate for detection of lesions less than 1 cm, low sensitivity for detection of metastases, and a high rate of false-positive scans, and recommended that PET or PET/CT not be used for staging breast cancer in most cases.
As our goal was to include all peer-reviewed published works on the subject, we also scanned the literature cited from books (e.g., Tave 1993), previously published reviews (e.g., Gjedrem 2000), or other published works (e.g., papers estimating quantitative genetic parameters).
The references cited in retrieved articles were also scanned for any additional relevant studies.
By scanning the reference lists of included articles and those citing them, seven additional articles were rendered potentially relevant.
In March, the People's Bank of China asked that mobile payments made by scanning a barcode be halted, citing security concerns.
The references cited in the selected studies were also scanned for relevant studies.
Although promoters of scans cite a number of positive results -- patients found, for example, to have a symptomless kidney cancer -- no one has yet published any study to document the value and safety of the scans for ostensibly well people.
CT scans have long been cited as a prime example of how the overuse of fancy medical technologies can drive up the cost of health care.
