Recently, I was emailing back and forth with an Upper Cervical Chiropractor that has been experimenting with iCAT scan images, in addition to x-rays, on each patient. Here is what he said:
“The views are revolutionary, which means our analysis must now adapt and relearn what we’re looking at… You can actually spin and bend and move the image 360 degrees because it’s taken in slices. So you can look at an A-P, then turn it to look up and through the neural canal from I-S or from S-I through the foramen magnum.
…I have no way of “measuring” anything because it’s all 3-D… The proper software costs $30k… The machine itself is just shy of $300k. But from what I’ve determined so far, what you see is what you get… It’s freakishly clean.”
He sent me some images taken off his computer screen with an iPhone. I was pretty impressed and thought I would share them on The Atlas of Life.
For you Upper Cervical Chiropractors and students, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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This is amazing technology and could improve the results we already get even more. I also think it would provide a much higher level of agreement on where and how the upper cervical spine should be adjusted. Thanks for sharing this with us Brandon, the pics are great.
I’ve looked quite a bit at the iCAT technology, and the one concern I have right now is in accuracy. I know that the images are very impressive, but what I don’t know is how much of those images is computed interpolation of the points between the data points that are actually measured.
If anyone has that information or knows where to find it, I’d be greatly interested … without it though, there is too much accuracy required for at least the orthogonal upper cervical techniques to get too far into developing analysis for the 3-D images.