BodyScan Imaging, an Irvine, CA-based imaging-service firm, is slated to open its first whole-body CT center in the U.S. Southwest this July 16. The center will feature whole-body CT scans using South San Francisco, CA Imatron’s electron beam tomography (EBT) scanner. The facility will use the technology for detecting coronary artery disease, colon cancer, lung disease, spine/joint scanning, and osteoporosis screening, the firm said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersJune 26, 2001
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