On: Why Are Ultrasound Machines So Expensive?

[angry_octet]

You can already get '3D' ultrasound, which is many individual images stitched together. Doesn't work if the baby moves around alot. Expensive and not covered by health insurance.

I don't think vet budgets are very large or favour high tech solutions but maybe you know otherwise.

[Dove → angry_octet]

I had a 3D ultrasound done at this place - http://www.firstviewultrasound.com - not long ago. I guess expensive means different things to different people, but I wound up with a CD full of a few dozen images and some movies for somewhere in the neighborhood of $100, which I thought it was a pretty good deal.

[angry_octet → Dove]

That is a good deal! A couple of years ago it was $500 but radiologists here are notoriously overpaid racketeers.

[agumonkey → angry_octet]

I wonder how GPUs are impacting medical vision near the field. With a lot of post processing done on a 500$ card can't you get pretty far ?