GE launches advanced volume CT

Hyderabad, June 26 (UNI) GE Healthcare today announced the launch of the 'first-ever' computed tomography (CT) scanner volume CT system capable of capturing images of the heart and coronary arteries in just five heartbeats.

This announcement reinforces GE Healthcare's leadership in CT technology and its commitment to bring safe and superior diagnostic imaging techniques to market with enormous benefits to patients, including earlier and more definitive diagnosis at very less radiation, a press release here said.

The Volume CT XT system maintains outstanding image quality while reducing a patient's radiation exposure by up to 83 per cent for diagnostic cardiac scans, it claimed.

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