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Biotech / Medical : Caprius(CAPR), Breast MRI(former ANMR/MAMO)

CAPR 5.935

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Nov 7 9:30 AM EST

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To: mdt who wrote (2299)	12/10/1997 3:20:00 AM
From: luis a. garcia	Read Replies (1) of 2615

XRAY people just so you don't think I am being harsh on you or anything yesterday I was attending a seminar at Sony with some experts from Japan working on latest technology... and the subject of hot electrons came up.. Hot electrons result when alpha particles or other form of radiation hits a proton and imparts enough energy to an electron to send it carrening out of orbit at a high rate of speed and crashes into a memory cell altering its programmed state and causing a software error.. We were discussing Flash which is a kind of memory chip silicon and metal to be exact and the thing about this type of memory is that you isolate the programing pin from the transistors memory cells such that it takes a lot of voltage to couple a charge into the cell which then stores it as a one or 0. until it is discharged similarly to a 0 or 1 charged state. this holds the program that runs many handheld devices... like your cell phones for instance. Well I asked Dc Chiba-san about xrays at airports and courthouses etc.. and their effect on these devices.. the answer astonished me..mind you this is not dna we are talking about this is silicon. isolated silicon gates to be exact. Well it turns out that it does affect the charge of these cells and its error is handled by sophisticated error correction codes etc and still one in one thousand affected customers will issue a complain. (meaning the damage was to more than just one cell) Now I am working with Intel who wisely is trying to avoid the issue to determine the exact failure rate and then using the fudge 1/1000 determine how many cell phones in the population go down every day due to xrays and alpha alone.. when you consider we build 400k per month... its a significant number..I bet .. more on that later.. now imagine flesh DNA and tissue what chance does it really stand??? just simple probabilities game thats all... you get lucky based on simple probability... why play xray roulette?? and if we do why do it anymore than we have to.??? maybe that is really what was on the minds of those wise idiots that determined based on xrays women shouldn't be screened till age 50... figure it out... MRI is safe. INTEL actually coats the silicon die (silicon is beach sand..actually) with a Polyimide layer to protect it from xrays and alpha's and hot electrons etc.. what do we coat our womens breasts with???? huh!!! huh!!! but we are so fucking smart we got the cost down to fifty bucks.. and now we increase the acceptable levels Please it is sooo ridiculuos...so fucking ridiculous... write a paper on that.. luis

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