New CT Scan in Advanced Medical and Dental Institute USM

Assalamualaikum and greetings to all, good news for the radiographers  in the Advanced Medical and Dental Institute USM because the new CT Scan is ready to use. The new CT Scan I would say have the most sophisticated technology in order to provide the best healthcare services to the patients. With the SOMATOM Definition AS, the new CT Scan (Siemens) provides a scanner that is capable of adapting to virtually every patient and every clinical question. Scalable from 20 up to 128 slices the system can be configured to your specific clinical needs.
Fueled by the FAST CARE platform, the SOMATOM Definition AS is designed to help maximize clinical outcome and to raise patient-centric productivity.

The new SOMATOM Definition AS can be upgraded with the Stellar detector for state-of-the-art signal detection and noise reduction.

Features:

• Single Click Readiness
• Your Single Source for Low Dose CT
• Open CT for all Patient
• Sliding Gantry
• Stellar Ready
• The Entry into Dual Energy

Technical Specifications:

• All routine and advanced applications for clinical practice
• Full FAST CARE functionality like FAST Planning to optimize patient-centric productivity
• High performance image reconstruction system 
• State-of-the-art cardio-vascular imaging with high temporal resolution of 150 msec
• Industry’s highest spatial resolution
• High-speed whole body coverage at highest spatial resolution
• Pediatric and bariatric CT imaging with virtually no patient exclusion
• Most comprehensive low dose CT portfolio in single source CT, including CARE kV
• Full on-site upgradability up to 128 slices with 18 m² footprint

Access to:

• Full FAST CARE functionality like FAST Planning to optimize patient-centric productivity
• Iterative reconstruction with SAFIRE*
• 3D guided interventional CT
• Long range dynamic imaging (up to 26 cm) for whole organ coverage at highest spatial resolution
• Scanner-injector coupling including injector protocol management

Before ending this topic I would to share how the x-ray tube spinning inside the gantry, enjoy the video: