During the first, second and third trimester the 4-slice scanner measured .082, .077 and .067 cGy; the 16-slice scanner measured .054, .025 and .084; and the 64-slice scanner measured .032, .016 ...

The new scanner replaces a 4-slice machine which will remain in the hospital as a back-up or secondary CT scanner when the hospital is busy. Last year, the hospital performed 7,500 CT scans.

New CT Scanner - 256-slice - Being Tested In North America Date: April 2, 2007 Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Summary: Johns Hopkins Medicine has installed for three months of initial ...

GENOA — The Genoa Community Hospital recently acquired a new CT Scanner. The scanner is a refurbished Siemens 4-slice CT scanner, which makes possible a more detailed type of x-ray.

It's called the 640 Slice CT scanner and it provides 3-D image of the entire heart in one beat. Doctors liken it to slicing a loaf of bread. Conventional, higher radiation CT scans give a 64-slice ...

Philips’ new Brilliance 64-Slice CT Scanner, recently installed at the University of Chicago Hospitals, has four times the resolution of a typical CT scan, providing higher quality imaging of ...

In theory, the more detailed diagnostic image you can get, the better it is. But some specialists are up at arms over what they say is overuse of a new imaging technology. About 1,000 64-slice CT ...

Luckily, the hospital had purchased a 640-Slice CT Scanner. Dr. Stanley Katz suggested they take a look at Naidich's heart, and the scan revealed that three arteries in his heart were blocked.

Tomah Memorial Hospital received a special delivery Sept. 14 as a new, state-of-the-art 128 slice computed tomography (CT) scanner arrived for installation in the hospital’s imaging department.

Philips yesterday unveiled their 256-slice scanner that renders 3-D images of the body like never before. The $2-million Brilliance CT machine can capture the body’s skeleton, organs and blood ...