Since all it takes for an American with insurance to get a CT scan is a slight fever or a missing Q-tip, it’s probably important they have the fastest, most accurate technology available. Philips’ new Brilliance 64-Slice CT Scanner, recently installed at the University of Chicago Hospitals, has four times the resolution of a typical CT scan, providing higher quality imaging of the human body. Even better, it’s fast—it can scan your heart or brain in about five seconds and do a full-body sweep in about 30. That’s fast enough that it can be timed to take snapshots of the human heart between pumps, allowing for some of the first widely-available high-resolution scans of that organ without motion blurring.
Brilliance 64-slice CT Scanner by Philips [MedGadget]
