Wednesday, June 3, 2009
5-Minute Nuclear Medicine Scanner Now Live
Filed under: Nuclear Medicine
GE has announced that it has installed its Discovery 530c cadmium zinc telluride based nuclear cardiac scanners at four hospitals in the US, Canada, Switzerland, and Italy. The devices are able to perform a scan within five minutes time frame that takes about twenty minutes on contemporary machines, leading to more patients having access to the scanner and a more comfortable time while inside.
More about the technology inside the Discovery NM 530c:
This revolutionary imaging system has been installed at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City, United States, Ottawa Heart Institute in Ottawa, Canada, University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland and Gabriele Monasterio Foundation, CNR, in Pisa, Italy.Alcyone Technology brings together a breakthrough design based on combining CZT detectors, focused pin-hole collimation, stationary data acquisition and 3D reconstruction, to improve workflow, dose management, and overall image quality.
CZT detectors directly convert gamma rays into digital signals, eliminating the need for photomultiplier tubes, but maintaining high stopping power to deliver improved energy, spatial and temporal resolution.
With conventional nuclear cardiac imaging, a patient must hold their arms above their head for two scans that take between 15-20 minutes each. Alcyone's focused multi-pinhole collimation has been strategically positioned to view cardiac anatomy and pathology with greater clarity and speed, resulting in scan times as short as 3 minutes. Unlike conventional nuclear imaging, all views are acquired simultaneously during a fully stationary SPECT acquisition, eliminating equipment movement during the scan.
Press release: GE HEALTHCARE INSTALLS NEXT EVOLUTION IN NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY SCANNERS GLOBALLY
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