Increased demand for such scans could easily outstrip the capacity, even though the number of centers offering them has increased markedly in the last five years, said Dr. Constance Lehman, another member of the panel that wrote the guidelines and a professor of radiology at the University of Washington.
We were also planning to increase our MRI capacity as we expected even more demand for MRI scans in the future, partly because MRI avoids the health risk associated with radiation from a CT examination.
Outside of the courtroom, the demand for brain scan detectors is steadily increasing, with Florida State police signing up to use 'brain fingerprinting' technology last year.
However, there is often heavy clinical demand for current scanning equipment and imaging can be time consuming.
Benjamin Schaefer Bangor, Me., June 30 , 2008 To the Editor: As a geriatrician and health services researcher, I believe that the demand for cardiac CT scans is a textbook example of gizmo idolatry, or the implicit conviction that a more technological approach is intrinsically better than one that is less technological.
We have not performed these analyses, due to the high computational demand for two-dimensional scans of epistasis.
Given the incidence of head injury in the United Kingdom [ 3] the proposed indicators for CT in the NICE document have a number of practice and resource implications both with respect to the information needs which underpin the indicators, as well as in the potential demand for the CT scan.
"The increase in waiting times for diagnostic services has been caused by a rise in demand for services such as scans and endoscopies to help diagnose cancer.
Some litigants have demanded monetary compensation for scanned books.
