Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has installed its LightSpeed 64-slice volume computed tomography (VCT) scanner at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
The facility said it would be installing a second LightSpeed VCT scanner later this month.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 27, 2005
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