Sentences with phrase «ct scan machines»

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She said the hospital had procured 16 Slice GE CT Scan and Fluoroscopy machines as well as C Arm machine to advance radiological services.

And follow - up scans using the American Museum of Natural History's more powerful CT machine have shown that some wrappings enclose as many as 20 tightly - packed shrews — hardly a way for priests to economize.

In a traditional X-ray machine, a filament emits electrons when it is heated above a certain threshold, and those electrons fly through the body and hit a metal electrode on the other side, creating images; CT scans produce three - dimensional images by rotating the electron source.

They scanned seven minke whale heads in CT and MRI machines, created computer models of the ears and surrounding soft tissue, and dissected the whale noggins to reveal ear fat running from blubber just under the skin to the ear bones.

CT scans use computers and rotating X-ray machines to create images of slices, or cross-sections, of the brain.

In contrast, other imaging procedures (for example, X-ray and CT scan) obtain images by using machines that send radiation through the body.

A Tomotherapy machine is a cross between a linac and a CT scan.

The CT scanner at Mass Vet is an 8 - slice machine, meaning it can acquire 8 - slices of data at once, thus greatly reducing scan time.

With the UC Davis veterinary hospital performing nearly 1,200 CT scans per year, this additional machine will also be available to take some conventional CT spillover and allow the imaging team to utilize additional CT scanning timeslots on the new machine.

October 15, 2009 — Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California admitted Monday that a mistake in default settings on a CT scanner used to perform brain scans on patients resulted in an increase in the amount of radiation emitted by the machine.

Note: A dental assistant holding a current radiography permit dated prior to November 1, 2011 will not be required to complete an approved radiography course unless he or she is operating an imaging machine other than conventional flat film radiography, such as cone - beam computed axial tomography (CT) scan.