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the time, Norris and his wife, Gena, had filed a lawsuit against 11 companies, accusing them of producing GBCA products that posed harm to patients. They claim that the use of these substances led Gena to develop Gadolinium Deposition Disease following a number of MR scans and led to out-of-pocket hospitalization costs for her treatment that amounted to $2 million or more.
Because of such claims, many scientists and organizations are exploring the development of not just contrast-free exams but alternative agents, or solutions that cut down on the amount of gadolinium exposure that patients are subjected to. Nanoscientists at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, for instance, recently developed an alternative agent, embedded with iron chelates, to outperform gadolinium and spare patients from alleged health risks.
This, however, is not the only area being explored in AI, with Imaging Biometrics itself developing other software that deploys sophisticated algorithms to assess the MR and CT scans that help clinicians make diagnoses. A possible scenario could be the evaluation of blood supply in an area of the body to help determine if a mass is a tumor or scar tissue.