Cutting back to help patients Teays Valley Hospital has
installed an advanced diagnostic system in its computed
tomography (CT or “cat scan”) machine to help physicians reach
confident diagnoses and provide a higher level of This new
technology was unveiled at Teays Valley Hospital and a few other
sites around the country last fall for other hospitals and
physicians to see in action. The new software by GE Healthcare
allows technologists to operate the CT machine at significantly
lower radiation doses while maintaining quality images for
radiologists to read. “Typically when using lower radiation dose
in CT, the resulting image is not clear,” said Johnsey Leef III,
MD, radiologist. “This new software uses special enhancement
techniques to reconstruct data acquired using a lower dose of
radiation, with the end result having the same image appearance
and quality as if done with the typical higher dose.” “Patients
will not notice a change in the procedure itself,” said April
Amburgey, director, medical imaging a