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GE LightSpeed Volume CT launched in India
EHM News Bureau - Mumbai
GE Healthcare recently launched the LightSpeed Volume CT system in India. The
machine has been installed at Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai.
Salient features of GE LightSpeed VCT:
- Allows physicians to capture images
of the heart in just five heart beats (4-6 seconds)
in a non-invasive procedure enabling rapid diagnosis.
- It can non-invasively capture the image of any
organ in the human body in just a second, perform
a whole body trauma scan in less than 10 seconds and
capture images of the heart and coronary arteries
in fewer than 5 heartbeats (4-6 seconds), something
no other CT system in the world can offer.
Dr Srinivas B Desai, Director – Department of Imaging and Interventional
Radiology, Jaslok Hospital said, “This is clearly the beginning of a new
imaging era. This system provides unprecedented image quality almost instantaneously,
which will provide significant impact in cardiovascular medicine and trauma
as well as significantly improve imaging in neurology, oncology and other fields.
With this breakthrough scanner, doctors at Jaslok will be able to diagnose a
patient’s illness much faster, enabling us to begin treatment more quickly
in a crisis and save lives.” Dr Desai added, “It is amazing that an
accurate 3-dimensional image of the coronary arteries and sites of focal disease
can be obtained from a beating heart. The LightSpeed VCT system does this using
rapid high-resolution imaging gated to the patient’s heart cycle.”
“The medical community is quicky coming to understand the significant benefits
and medical implications of the LightSpeed VCT. Take the case of a patient who
has undergone five bypass graft operations and is suffering from chest pain
and phlebitis. Doctors needed to quickly understand whether the pain was coming
from his heart or his lungs. Thanks to a single LightSpeed VCT scan, it was
possible to quickly and accurately prove that the bypasses were operating correctly,
and that the patient suffered from pulmonary embolism or vice versa.”
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a USD 15 billion unit
of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE).
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