If CT stumbles, blame Mom

May 30, 2008 If CT stumbles, blame Mom Greg Freiherr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just as Old Faithful will gush like clockwork every hour on the hour, CT procedure volumes will grow year after year—or so I thought. Earlier this month, the Discovery Channel burst my bubble about Old Faithful, noting that the timing, length, and height of its eruptions vary from day to day, year to year. A scant few days after this geothermal epiphany, while attending the Stanford MDCT conference in Las Vegas, I learned that CT may have lost a step in its growth. "In the last six months we have seen a decrease in the number of CTs at our institution," Dr. Matthew Bassignani told me during a break in the conference sessions. "At this meeting, I've heard that Yale, Massachusetts General Hospital, and NYU have seen drops as well."

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