MULTI-SLICE CT Scanning
is now available

Pictured is the gantry for the Computed Tomograpy (CT) Scanner as it was being transported by forklift from the delivery truck to the new CT room at Skyline Hospital (Click on any picture to get a larger view).


 

Skyline Hospital in White Salmon, Washington took delivery of the new multi-slice CT scanner that was installed in the newly remodeled diagnostic imaging area of the hospital. The scanner, a Philips Mx8000 Multislice CT Imaging System, provides Skyline patient’s state of the art diagnostic capabilities for head, whole body and organ scanning. CT scans are invaluable in assessing head/brain injuries or strokes, cardiac imaging, full body trauma evaluation and whole organ functional scanning. The Mx8000 represents a new family of low dose imaging technology that provides excellent images at a lower radiation dosage than previous generations of scanners.

     

Skyline Hospital now has the technical ability to diagnose and treat patients that previously were transferred to another facility by ambulance to be diagnosed. CT is fast, patient friendly and has the unique ability to image a combination of soft tissue, bone, and blood vessels. CT is the workhorse imaging system in most busy radiology departments and diagnostic centers. Since its invention some 25 years ago, CT imaging has seen massive advances in technology and clinical performance. Today CT enables the diagnosis of a wider array of illness and injury than ever before.

     

Unlike other medical imaging techniques, such as conventional x-ray imaging, CT enables direct imaging and differentiation of soft tissue structures, such as liver, lung tissue, and fat. CT is especially useful in searching large space occupying lesions, tumors and metastasis and can not only reveal their presence, but also the size, spatial location and extent of a tumor.

     

CT imaging provides both good soft tissue resolution (contrast) as well as high spatial resolution. This enables the use of CT in orthopedic medicine and imaging of bony structures including prolapses (protrusion) of vertebral discs, imaging of complex joints like the shoulder or hip as a functional unit and fractures, especially those affecting the spine.