IMAGES: Credit GE Healthcare
Computed Tomography, more commonly known as CT scans have been used for decades to assess a patient who is believed to be seriously ill or injured.
We’ve all seen the CT images of bones and organs pieced together from x-rays used to help treat these patients, but a new kind of technology is giving a more accurate, breathtaking view of the internal body in motion.
General Electric’s Revolution CT, developed in 2013, is an extremely fast scanner that allows doctors to get a detailed, intimate view of things like a beating heart, veins pumping blood, the skull, blood vessels, and much more.
According to CNET.com, the scanner also reduces radiation by as much as 82 percent, something that no doubt alleviates concern for many patients and healthcare professionals alike.
“Its combination of low-dose exposure, organ-wide coverage and motion correction technology allows doctors to reduce radiation and still obtain high-resolution images of blood vessels, soft tissue, organs and bones,” GE Reports states.
IMAGES: Credit GE Healthcare
A regular CT scan can take anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes, but the machine captures full images so fast, it only takes one second to completely capture an entire pelvis and abdomen. That’s a huge difference for patients who typically are instructed to be still as a large, intimidating machine scans their body.
