1. Toshiba Aquilion 64 CT Cardiac Calcium Scan

2. How Coronary Artery Disease Develops

3. The Value of Detecting Calcium

4. The Imaging Center's Toshiba Aquilion 64-multislice CT Scanner

5. The Cardiac Calcium Scores

6. Who Should Have the Exam?

7. Who Will Not Benefit From the Exam?

8. Making an Appointment

9. Return to Main CT Page

4. The Imaging Center’s CT Scanner

Multi-slice CT scanners are the latest innovation in computed tomography (CT) machines. CT scanners traditionally made individual image slices throughout the patient’s anatomy using an x-ray beam rotating in a complete circle around the patient for each separate slice. New multi-slice helical scanners have several x-ray beams traveling together to create overlapping spirals, rather than individual circles, with scanning duration a fraction of the time it took with previous scanners.

At The Imaging Center, we have the latest Toshiba Aquilion 64 multi-slice CT scanner that employs the fastest rotational speed of any available multi-slice scanner. The scanner is able to visualize cardiac calcification with a single image set.

Patients find multi-slice scanning to be quick and convenient:
• patients can remain in street clothing
• no preparation is required
• images are acquired during a single breath hold
• no injections or blood draws are needed
• the entire examination takes less than 5 minutes

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