Posted at 12:53 a.m., Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Queen's completes imaging technology upgrade
Advertiser Staff
The Queen's Medical Center has completed installation of a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner and three new Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners that will enable its radiologists to better detect and treat numerous conditions related to trauma, heart disease and other conditions that require rapid and precise diagnosis.Queen's now owns a new 1.5 Tesla MRI, which will reduce the time it takes to scan patients, in addition to offering greater diagnostic capabilities. The new scanner uses advanced software that will allow Queen's physicians to more quickly detect the spread of brain tumors, as well as detect brain damage, hemorrhaging and congenital abnormalities that older MRI machines could not. A QMC news release said Queen's is the first hospital in the state to obtain this software.
The hospital also now has two 64-slice Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners and a 16-slice CT scanner.
