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RE: Digital X-Ray Can Scan Body in 13 Seconds
True, but in a recent issue of National Geographic featuring the diamond
industry, some of those diamonds are so small they can fit into the pores of
a strawberry. The benefit of swallowing ore containing strawberry-pore sized
diamonds is questionable, but the workors are desperately poor. With current
technology, what is the smallest diamond that could be resolved on an image
intensified image?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jacobus [SMTP:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 6:39 AM
> To: Douglas and Shirley Jackson
> Cc: RADSAFE
> Subject: Re: Digital X-Ray Can Scan Body in 13 Seconds
>
> An x-ray image shows objects due to differences in
> density. Water has a density of 1.00, a diamond has a
> density of 3.51, graphite of 2.25, and bone of 1.7-2.0
>
>
> --- Douglas and Shirley Jackson <g2v13a@SWBELL.NET>
> wrote:
> > My I ask the dumb question of the day ?????
> >
> > Can you actually see the diamonds (as is implied) in
> > this x-ray ?
> >
> > I have seen many foreign object x-rays of the
> > abdomen over the years and
> > ... the rings show nicely, but the diamonds would
> > have been missed
> > without the metal ring.
> > . . .
>
>
> =====
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
>
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