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Keith (Gout Admin) said:

Yes, but why can't you just set a normal scanner at 80 kiilovolts and see uric acid crystals, or the absence of them? More significantly, why can't this be applied to the decrease or increase in urate deposits as a result of treatment or lack of it? After all, I don't need a scanner to tell me I have bones.

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Keith,
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I found mention of the non-invasive diagnostic scanner, dual-energy computed tomograhy (DECT). [edit: link was to non-existing page]

It appears to be simply a matter of more sophisticated granularity facilitated by the dual nature of the embedded mechanism inside the housing, as Trev alluded to real time ?stereo? imaging. Monosodium urate still the tag being peeked at.

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