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Clovis Community Medical Center is the first hospital in California to get a new 128 SOMATOM CT Scanner that will help doctors diagnose patients faster and more efficiently, using less radiation.

The state of the art CT, or Computed Tomography, scanner can scan the entire body in 10 seconds and help doctors see something as small as a quarter of a millimeter.  It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a reality that will help valley patients.

 

Speed, resolution, power and lower dosage radiation for patients is what sets this new scanner apart from others of its kind.

 

“This scanner is so fast that the gantry, which is essentially one rotation of the x-ray, it occurs in .3 seconds.  And in that time it acquires 128 slices,” says Barrows.  “So, in the course of a single breath hold, we can image the heart, we can image the body.  We can image the heart in four seconds.  It’s incredibly fast.”


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