Thread: Body Scan in a minute

A new image of the people

At the meeting of the American radiologists Philips has introduced a new computer tomographs. This not only provides better images of the human body, but also lower the patient radiation dose.

A glance into the interior of the human body has long only with a scalpel. Only the invention of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, for he 1901 the first Nobel physics prize awarded, allowed a body with radioactive rays to penetrate. However, with adverse effects for the Durchleuchteten: The dose is low, however, radioactive radiation damage human tissue. Also, the results were not satisfactory with an X-ray image can not all tissue types are mapped.

New methods such as computed tomography (CT) provide significant because better images of the human anatomy. This week, Philips at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago is a new computer tomographs with the name "Brilliance iCT" presented, the flash images of the body in a previously unknown sharpness. The scan of the whole body takes less than one minute to complete

Unlike conventional X-ray, where the rays penetrate the body and on a two-dimensional photo plate meet orbits in the X-ray computed tomography of the source patient. The new Philips equipment, the X-ray source rotates four times in the second to the patient. This is significantly faster than previous systems. The advantage for patients is that it will be a loud Philips significantly lower radiation dose . In addition, the high speed allows higher-resolution images.

While the X-ray source of the patient orbits, it takes the body from all perspectives. These images, the computer will become a three-dimensional image of the body or individual institutions. The doctor then can a body from different angles and different perspectives and more accurate diagnoses.

The first CT scanners were independently beginning of the 70s in England and the USA. Like their predecessors, the X-ray were two inventors, Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield and Allan McLeod, a Nobel prize. But not in physics: They shared 1979 Nobel Prize for medicine.

With a computer tomographs can not only people living through: 2005 European and Egyptian scientists, They found the long refute valid opinion, the Pharaoh was a blow to the back of his head had been murdered.