Toshiba America Medical Systems of Tustin, CA, has installed its Aquilion One CT scanner at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Aquilion One utilizes 320 detector rows, each with a width of 0.5 mm, to image an entire organ in a single gantry rotation. The technology produces 4D images displaying up to 16 cm of anatomical coverage to capture an entire brain or heart and show movement such as blood flow.
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