St. Anthony Installs New CT Scanner

St. Anthony announces the installation of its new CT scanner, the Siemens Somatom Definition "Flash." The hospital say the scanner utilizes fast scanning with the lowest radiation doses possible.

The $1.5 million Flash is a "dual source" scanner, which utilizes two sources of x-ray for rapid and more precise scanning. For example, the entire thorax can be scanned in just over .5 seconds, which takes the burden of breath-holding off of our patients. St. Anthony says its the first to introduce the Siemens Somatom Definition "Flash" CT scanner in Oklahoma.

To minimize radiation, and prevent over-radiation of dose sensitive organs, the Flash provides two different solutions: one is the combination of Adaptive Dose Shields and CARE Dose4D, which reduce irrelevant radiation and can reduce radiation exposure in average adult patients by up to 66%. The other is X-CARE, which focuses in on dose-sensitive anatomical regions, and reduces or switches off tube current during the rotation phase in which the concerned anatomical regions are most directly exposed to radiation.