What ultrasound can—and cannot—replace

1:00:08>> Ultrasound is you know generally excellent for like a wide range of problems including you know assessing abdominal organs, blood vessels, the heart pregnancy >> any other kind of soft tissue problems right? Uh in real time without radiation. Okay great. uh what it doesn't do straightforwardly and can't replace kind of what MRI does currently uh is the soft tissue contrast for the brain and the spinal cord not quite as good in those context characterization of joints and certain tumors and then validation pathways for certain platforms like DEXA for bone density okay >> so it's not quite as as uh able to be great in those areas and when I looked at some of the back and forth people

1:00:50said medical imaging technology is about a tool toolbox of instruments. It's not a one instrument to rule them all. And depending on your use case, you have better options than others. So the idea is a whole new body ultrasound system can do some things very well and it might not answer every problem, but doing some things really well that makes it more accessible. Yeah. Is super valuable >> in and of uh itself. And so that's kind of I thought this was interesting because it's this, you know, we have a lot of the tech folks come in to say we want to help save the world. This seems to be an actual pract something that could be really practical um if it can