Toshiba Medical System have created the latest powerful new CT scanning machine that they believe will save the lives of thousands of heart patients and stroke victims, if it survives the steely-eyed scrutiny of health insurers.
the Aquilion ONE™. This advanced diagnostic imaging system revolutionizes patient care because it can help reduce diagnosis time for life threatening diseases like stroke and heart disease from days and hours to mere minutes.

For the first time,the technology allows physicians to see not only a three-dimensional depiction of an organ, but also the organ’s dynamic blood flow and function. Unlike any other CT system, the Aquilion ONE can scan one organ - including heart, brain and others - in one rotation because it covers up to 16 cm of anatomy using 320 ultra high resolution 0.5mm detector elements.

This reduces exam time, as well as radiation and contrast dose. With the Aquilion ONE, the organ or area is captured in a single rotation at one moment in time, eliminating the need to reconstruct slices from multiple points in time.

An Aquilion has more than five times greater detector coverage than its commonly used predecessor, the 64-CT. The big advantage over other imaging technologies, researchers say, is that the 320-CT can, in 1 second or less, images “slices” as big as 16 centimeters (6.3 inches), which is wide enough to capture most of the body’s organs with one single rotation of its central, X-ray emitting gantry. The 64-CT, however, only has the capacity to image 3.2 centimeters (1.3 inches) at a time, and it takes longer to perform, up to 10 seconds

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