Otherwise interesting post that caused a little bit of confusion for me, as the dates listed at the start of the article are in the mid 1980's, when I think it meant to be the mid 1890's.

>The expense of the machine costs only about $400 while a good coil is valued at from $200 to $600. But, of course, this need not be considered by physicians, since all are wealthy

This is interesting. Would doctors build/assemble their own machines?

Definitely not the case with newer forms of imaging.

similarly waiting for mass adoption of iPhone based ultrasound and some kind of laser computational tomography-interferometry (capable to see at least few centimeter deep). We're probably can do iPhone bases X-ray too - the CCDs are very sensitive so the dose at dental Xrays is already much lower than film-based, and may be we can go even lower with small discharge device (at the level of unrolling a duct tape roll) Naturally, add in some diagnostic AI, and you get tricorder :)

I'm not sure I agree with the premise that cfDNA has not reached widespread acceptance.

For example, 94% of OBGYNs in the US that have training for high risk pregnancies, offer NIPT tests [0].

Basically anyone in the US who is pregnant can order a NIPT test for very little money.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4303457/

I had no idea X-rays were invented in 1986!

What is the point of these hallucinationed AI blobs the internet is filling up with.

None of the dates in this "article" are correct and are off by a hundred years.

Worthless and don't waste your time reading it. Go to ChatGPT if you're bored and want more lies and invented bullshit

Brave world we live in now

> The public was fascinated by this technology and studios offered the public “views of their bones” and “shoe fitting” images

For shoe fitting there were actually x-ray machines in shoe stores. They were widely used, especially when buying shoes for children. Wikipedia has a nice description [1]:

> The shoe-fitting fluoroscope, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, was an X-ray fluoroscope machine installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s. The device was a metal construction covered in finished wood, approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) tall in the shape of short column, with a ledge with an opening through which the standing customer (adult or child) would put their feet and look through a viewing porthole at the top of the fluoroscope down at the X-ray view of the feet and shoes. Two other viewing portholes on either side enabled the parent and a sales assistant to observe the toes being wiggled to show how much room for the toes there was inside the shoe. The bones of the feet were clearly visible, as was the outline of the shoe, including the stitching around the edges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope