Philips accelerates Brilliance iCT installations

May 15, 2008 Philips accelerates Brilliance iCT installations Greg Freiherr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philips Healthcare is stepping up efforts to deliver its ultra-premium Brilliance iCT to sites around the world. Jeffrey Studenka, Philips' senior director for field marketing, told Diagnostic Imaging at the Stanford MDCT conference that the company now expects to have 50 of the 256-slice units installed by the end of 2008. This is about four times as many as company execs were predicting when they unveiled the iCT at RSNA 2007. On the MDCT meeting exhibit floor, Studenka and colleagues were showcasing not only the new premium-end scanner but also the Essence x-ray tube, detector system, and reconstruction engine behind the scanner. These components are found in the Brilliance 64-slice configuration as well as the iCT.

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