Monday, November 29, 2010

Speed reduced to 80% CT let radiation in 10 seconds to complete body check

Yesterday, an industry known as speed CT scanner in Navy General Hospital post enabled.

It can in 10 seconds to complete a full body scan checks. Compared to conventional CT, radiation can reduce above 80%.

It is understood that the CT belong to the x-ray examination, x-ray and belong to ionizing radiation, so the body checks at inevitably affected by radiation.

Navy General Hospital Medical Imaging Department Director Mr. Guo describes, this kind of advanced CT to less x-ray diagnostic images are high quality, its acquisition of two heartbeat will be able to conduct a comprehensive screening of coronary health check, radiation dose lower than before, more than 80% of the human body will beam damage to a minimum.

It is learnt that the Navy General Hospital introduced the CT scanner, currently in Beijing only 3 hospital use, two is a China-Japan friendship hospital and the Hospital of Beijing century monument.

(Communicator Yaolu)

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