Lourdes is First in Delaware Valley to Install and Use New Scanner
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
CAMDEN, NJ - Physicians are using a new tool to detect illness much
earlier and without invasive surgery. The advanced diagnostic imaging
of the new SOMATOM Sensation 64 CT Scanner at Lourdes reveals clear,
sharp, three-dimensional pictures of patients' organs, tissue and blood
vessels down to the smallest detail--all in as little as five
heartbeats. Lourdes is the first hospital in the Delaware Valley to
install and use this new technology, currently available in select
hospitals across the country.
With the new CT scanner, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center physicians can scan an entire patient--head to toe--in less than 10 seconds. Patients who undergo a CT scan using the SOMATOM Sensation 64 are less likely to undergo diagnostic surgery and often are treated with medication accompanied by behavioral and lifestyle changes.
"This new scanner is as close to having x-ray vision as you can get," said Daniel Scotti, MD, Chief of Radiology at Lourdes. "In just seconds we can get complete images of a patient's heart, brain or lungs. We are able to move those images around for a 360-degree view of the organ, blood vessel or tissue, and within a few minutes we are able to diagnose heart disease and cancer--without the need for surgery."
The scanner's x-ray beam system rotates around a patient's body, scanning hundreds of cross-sectional images of specific parts of the body. The scanner takes 64 views every rotation, and one rotation takes only about a third of a second. When the scan is complete, a computer reconstructs a series of 3D, semi-transparent images that doctors can view from any angle.
Lourdes Health System is comprised of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, a 410-bed tertiary care teaching hospital located in Camden, and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, a 259-bed community hospital located in Willingboro. Lourdes Health System is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York, and is a member of Catholic Health East.
With the new CT scanner, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center physicians can scan an entire patient--head to toe--in less than 10 seconds. Patients who undergo a CT scan using the SOMATOM Sensation 64 are less likely to undergo diagnostic surgery and often are treated with medication accompanied by behavioral and lifestyle changes.
"This new scanner is as close to having x-ray vision as you can get," said Daniel Scotti, MD, Chief of Radiology at Lourdes. "In just seconds we can get complete images of a patient's heart, brain or lungs. We are able to move those images around for a 360-degree view of the organ, blood vessel or tissue, and within a few minutes we are able to diagnose heart disease and cancer--without the need for surgery."
The scanner's x-ray beam system rotates around a patient's body, scanning hundreds of cross-sectional images of specific parts of the body. The scanner takes 64 views every rotation, and one rotation takes only about a third of a second. When the scan is complete, a computer reconstructs a series of 3D, semi-transparent images that doctors can view from any angle.
Lourdes Health System is comprised of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, a 410-bed tertiary care teaching hospital located in Camden, and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, a 259-bed community hospital located in Willingboro. Lourdes Health System is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York, and is a member of Catholic Health East.
