The quick scan time and narrow probe head tip, also offer the possibility for a fullbodyscan of multiple suspicious lesions in a single patient appointment.
Scott Gazelle, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Technology Assessment, 90.8% of patients who had a full-body scan got a least one positive finding that led to additional testing.
This month, though, the skepticism seems to have morphed into fury and resistance, after the TSA instituted a new pat-down policy requiring those who refuse the full-body scan to undergo a fairly-aggressive frisking.
The radiation exposure from a Mars journey is similar to getting a full-body CT scan every five or six days, said lead researcher Cary Zeitlin of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Giving the consumer an option to scan a QR code which leads them to a website that is not optimized for the device they use to scan it is like sending someone with a broken arm in to get a full-body physical.