Brilliance CT 256-Slice Scanner from Philips Gets to the Heart of the Problem

Philips yesterday unveil their 256 - slice scanner that render 3 - 500 paradigm of the body like never before . The $ 2 - million Brilliance CT machine can capture the body ’s skeleton , electric organ and origin vas in the minute of particular , and was bring out yesterday in Chicago , at the Radiological Society of North America ’s annual meeting .

Philips ’ scanner can give a patient a full body scan in less than a minute — and exposes them to 80 per centime less radiation than a traditional X - ray simple machine . The auto scans the body as well as rotating around it , sending out 256 pulses every one - third of a second . It is so brawny that it can capture an unblurred image of an entire marrow in less than two wink .

The machine could leaven useful in the battle against cancer . As well as pick up tumors in the body , the electronic scanner should be able to show medics how the disease spreads and newfangled pattern of mental defectiveness . There is currently just one 256 - fade image scanner in function , at the Metro Health aesculapian center in Cleveland , Ohio . [ Daily Mail ]

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