CDUH acquires 64-slice CT Scan

Constantly pioneering on innovations in the field of medicine, Cebu Doctors' University Hospital (CDUH) Center for Advanced Imaging recently added to its facility the new GE 64-slice Volume CT Scan, making it the only hospital in the Visayas-Mindanao area to acquire such a breakthrough in advanced diagnostic imaging.

The fastest available, the new GE 64-slice Volume CT works more than four times compared to the conventional scanners being utilized by most hospitals.

With this new technology, CDUH can further expand its program of non-invasive cardiovascular imaging.

This innovative system captures images of a beating heart in five heartbeats, an organ in one second, performs whole body scans in ten seconds and identifies cardiac disease that less advanced scanners miss.

Volume CT achieves this technological leap forward through a radical platform design that enables the clinician, for the first time, to utilize volume coverage and thin slice imaging concurrently, rather than alternatively.

This unprecedented marriage of high volume and high resolution has three major clinical rewards: dramatically reduced acquisition time, improved image quality and new diagnostic possibilities.

New procedures such as Coronary CT Angiogram are now available and can be done as an outpatient procedure. In the investigation of ischemic heart disease, cardiac CT imaging is at present the most effective non-invasive technique for the exploration of coronary arteries.

"The biggest challenge for clinicians is to capture the heart. The scan has to really take the image but, as you know, the heart is beating, making it difficult to capture good images," explained Dr. Philip Larrazabal.

Larrazabal stressed that now, they can have better images for a better diagnosis.

"What they can do in the US and in Europe, Cebu Doctor's University Hospital can do as well," he concluded.

Computed Tomography (CT) System is a medical diagnostic tool that allows the visualization of internal structures within the human body. This aids physicians in diagnosing disease, viewing internal abnormalities and assessing the extent of trauma damage. The new advanced 64-slice Volume CT scanner produces better imaging for more accurate diagnosis.

To know more about what Cebu Doctors' University Hospital's Center for Advanced Imaging offers, you may call 255-5555 local 223 or 255-7226.