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Stanford International Symposium 2008
May 15, 2008
Philips accelerates Brilliance iCT installations
Philips Healthcare is stepping up efforts to deliver its ultra-premium Brilliance iCT to sites around the world. Jeffrey Studenka, Philips' senior director for field marketing, told Diagnostic Imaging at the Stanford MDCT conference that the company now expects to have 50 of the 256-slice units installed by the end of 2008. This is about four times as many as company execs were predicting when they unveiled the iCT at RSNA 2007. On the MDCT meeting exhibit floor, Studenka and colleagues were showcasing not only the new premium-end scanner but also the Essence x-ray tube, detector system, and reconstruction engine behind the scanner. These components are found in the Brilliance 64-slice configuration as well as the iCT. Five of the ultra-premium scanners are currently installed at sites around the world. Another five will be operating by the end of summer. Facilities currently running Brilliance iCT are MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland; Lenox Hill Hospital in New York; Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC; Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis; and Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel.
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GE unveils ultra-premium CT The new LightSpeed CT750 HD from GE Healthcare promises a 33% contrast improvement in the body and 47% in the heart, while cutting dose in the body by as much as half. The most significant change, however, may come from the product's ability to acquire data at more than 101 different energy levels, using an approach GE calls spectral imaging. Dominic Smith, GE's general manager of molecular imaging and CT marketing and advanced applications, describes this new capability. Greg Freiherr has the story.
Stanford MCDT workstation faceoff Seven companies went toe-to-toe in the Stanford MCDT workstation faceoff, their systems driven by 14 radiologists navigating four cases. It was three hours of intense interpretations, packaged into five-minute blocks stacked end to end. Greg Freiherr winds it up in the fastest 90 seconds in radiology.
AquilionOne Vegas protocol focuses on patient handling Patient throughput makes or breaks an imaging center. At the Spring Valley Imaging Center, one of several in the Nevada Imaging Centers group in Las Vegas, the third U.S. installation of the AquilionOne is being groomed for volume, in terms of not only data acquisition but patients as well. The center is doing advanced studies in the brain and heart but also every routine CT scan possible. Greg Freiherr has the story.
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