Diagnostic imaging investment

Created by Toshiba, the scanners produce highly detailed volume and three-dimensional images, allowing more accurate and speedy diagnoses than the widely used, single- and early multi-slice scanners. The machines are earmarked for five hospitals throughout the country, the first being at The Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle. The new technology also reduces the time taken to complete a CT scan from minutes to seconds. Diana VanLoon, diagnostic and imaging manager at The Alexandra Hospital said, “the new systems have the kind of speed and image quality that is especially useful when scanning regions of the body containing moving organs. This will prove invaluable to BMI Healthcare in clinical areas such as cardiology, neurology, and angiography. The equipment will also aid in stroke assessment and improving critical and trauma care through increased acquisition speeds and faster reconstruction capabilities.” Karsten Iversen, managing director, Toshiba Medical Systems UK, said: “The Aquilion 64-slice CT enables high-speed, high-resolution imaging with the lowest noise and the best anatomical coverage. The result is absolutely precise isotropic imaging of any region of the body and our users capture and see more anatomical information than previously thought possible.”