MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
The Favaloro Foundation has a new state-of-the-art Multislice Computed Tomography equipment with ultra-fast 3D image reconstruction technology, which allows obtaining excellent quality images in less time and with more precise results.
Its system of 160 slices per rotation represents a significant increase in the temporal resolution of the method and the ability to recognize lesions at a higher speed. For example, cardiac studies can be performed with just one beat, while other equipment requires analysis of up to 10-15 beats to obtain the same level of information.
Due to its dose reduction techniques (automatic collimation, dose modulation, iterative processing) the rate of radiation exposure is significantly reduced, in accordance with the new standards of the American and European Radiology societies.
With the combination of both conditions (higher temporal resolution and lower radioactive dose) a third benefit is obtained: the reduction of up to 40% of the iodinated contrast requirements for the contrasted studies.
Its stretcher admits patients up to 200 kg and the examination throat has a diameter of 78 cm, the highest of the entire Premium segment of Computed Tomographs, which allows the best examination of obese patients or with multiple supports (respirators, infusion pumps , tutors, etc.).
 WHAT KINDS OF STUDIES CAN BE DONE?
Cardiovascular: The possibility of acquiring diagnostic studies in patients with increased heart rate and arrhythmias. It has robust software tools for the adequate characterization of atherosclerotic plaques and quantification of lesions with the possibility of viewing them in a format similar to that of hemodynamics. It also has the possibility of automated quantification of biventricular systolic function.
Pulmonary: It allows the automated and sequential evaluation of the volumetry of pulmonary nodules with categorization of their growth speed and their anatomical conditions.
Liver:Â as in the lung, it allows a better characterization of the nodules as well as their hepatic segmentation.
Virtual endoscopies:Â Widely useful in patients as a diagnostic alternative to endoscopic studies.
Neuro-Imaging: the current tomograph has a very high temporal resolution and wide acquisition areas in very short periods of time. In patients diagnosed with stroke, structural brain imaging can be performed to rule out hemorrhage or ischemia, an angiography of intra and extracerebral vessels with 3D imaging and automated bone removal, and a perfusion study to rule out penumbra (at risk) brain territory in a very short period of time (15 minutes). This makes it possible to start the therapy of these patients in very limited times, a fundamental variable of the good treatment prognosis.
Low-dose CT for lung AC screening : Its importance has recently been demonstrated in lung cancer studies in comparison with chest radiography.
MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
The Favaloro Foundation has a new state-of-the-art Multislice Computed Tomography equipment with ultra-fast 3D image reconstruction technology, which allows obtaining excellent quality images in less time and with more precise results.
Its system of 160 slices per rotation represents a significant increase in the temporal resolution of the method and the ability to recognize lesions at a higher speed. For example, cardiac studies can be performed with just one beat, while other equipment requires analysis of up to 10-15 beats to obtain the same level of information.
Due to its dose reduction techniques (automatic collimation, dose modulation, iterative processing) the rate of radiation exposure is significantly reduced, in accordance with the new standards of the American and European Radiology societies.
With the combination of both conditions (higher temporal resolution and lower radioactive dose) a third benefit is obtained: the reduction of up to 40% of the iodinated contrast requirements for the contrasted studies.
Its stretcher admits patients up to 200 kg and the examination throat has a diameter of 78 cm, the highest of the entire Premium segment of Computed Tomographs, which allows the best examination of obese patients or with multiple supports (respirators, infusion pumps , tutors, etc.).
 WHAT KINDS OF STUDIES CAN BE DONE?
Cardiovascular: The possibility of acquiring diagnostic studies in patients with increased heart rate and arrhythmias. It has robust software tools for the adequate characterization of atherosclerotic plaques and quantification of lesions with the possibility of viewing them in a format similar to that of hemodynamics. It also has the possibility of automated quantification of biventricular systolic function.
Pulmonary: It allows the automated and sequential evaluation of the volumetry of pulmonary nodules with categorization of their growth speed and their anatomical conditions.
Liver:Â as in the lung, it allows a better characterization of the nodules as well as their hepatic segmentation.
Virtual endoscopies:Â Widely useful in patients as a diagnostic alternative to endoscopic studies.
Neuro-Imaging: the current tomograph has a very high temporal resolution and wide acquisition areas in very short periods of time. In patients diagnosed with stroke, structural brain imaging can be performed to rule out hemorrhage or ischemia, an angiography of intra and extracerebral vessels with 3D imaging and automated bone removal, and a perfusion study to rule out penumbra (at risk) brain territory in a very short period of time (15 minutes). This makes it possible to start the therapy of these patients in very limited times, a fundamental variable of the good treatment prognosis.
Low-dose CT for lung AC screening : Its importance has recently been demonstrated in lung cancer studies in comparison with chest radiography.
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