Medical Scans and Race Cars, Who Knew?

What do you not think about when thinking about diagnostic imaging?  Chances are you don’t think about your car, or for that matter a race car. Let’s face it, a CT scanner and MRI scanner don’t really move as quickly on a track. It’s also a safe assumption that it’s not very likely to see a race car produce an accurate brain scan. It’s very interesting to note that race cars and scanners do have something in common, auto lubricant.

Apparently auto lubricant makes scanners work ten times faster without sacrificing image quality. Silicon is typically what’s used, when combined with auto lubricant it speeds up. Auto Lubricant is an inexpensive way to help speed up the scan. Researchers at UC- Berkley stated, “Like a book, MoS2 is made of individual sheets. You can tear off a single sheet or a bunch of them and make very thin and thus flexible electronic devices."


This kind of discovery adds an element of affordability considering the affordability of auto lubricant. This also means that diagnostic imaging systems could operate at several thousand rates per second as opposed to hundreds. It’s great to see how something so simple can have such a positive effect on complex technology.


If a scan is sped up it means a smoother process, which means a happier patient. Anything that can be done to make a patient not focus quite as much and the negative aspects of having a scan done is worth trying and implementing. It’s certain that this will be a big hit as time goes on.


It’s early still in this development but chances are that it won’t take long to see the development take steam and create some opportunities.


ClermontRadiology.com