Cutting edge imaging

Just finished doing the acceptance testing of our new 64 slice CT scanner. This thing will generate a whole bucketload of images without even thinking about it. After two days of playing around, testing and scanning various phantoms, I ended up with a little over 3700 images to send to our PACS. Ended up with some very impressive looking reconstructed images showing a lot more detail in the reformatted coronal and sagittal planes than I expected. It’s a cool machine, but radiologists are going to need new visualization tools to handle all the images these things can spit out.
On another note, the article about blogging I was interviewed for a couple of weeks ago was published today in The State newspaper. It’s a short little fluffy piece with quotes and stuff from a few other webloggers (including me).


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2 Replies to “Cutting edge imaging”

  1. Can you tell me where one can find the 64-slice CT scanner? My dad needs the test. He lives near San Antonio, Texas. Thanks- N. Roberts

  2. There is very little that a 64 slice CT scanner can do that can’t be done just as well by an 8 or 16 slice scanner. Just about any hospital/imaging center will have at least one of them now. You might be a little hard pressed to find a lot of 64 slice CT scanners out there at the moment, since they’re still relatively new. Unless there’s a particular place your dad’s physician wants him to go for the CT scan, call around a few places and see if they have a multi-slice helical scanner.

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