CT takes different directions to tackle age-old problems

August 5, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. CT takes different directions to tackle age-old problems Fresh approach to earlier technology brings results as slice wars begin to run their course Paula Gould -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The future of CT used to be easy to predict. So-called slice wars dominated the discussion as vendors wheeled out their latest multidetector machines. CT systems were ranked according to a kind of geometric progression: single-slice, two-slice, four-slice, 16-slice . . . It was a simple form of classification and one that was easy to appreciate. Today the picture is less straightforward. The numbers game is not yet finished, but comparisons cannot be based on detector rows alone. Assumptions of what a CT scanner should look like and how the modality should behave are being challenged from all directions.

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