Soliciting Advice About Cardiac CT

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Permalink Reply by Peng Hui LEE on July 10, 2008 at 7:43pm

I came across an interesting article abut this in Aunt Minnie
http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=car&Pag=dis...

which I've mentioned in my blog:
http://pengrad.blogspot.com/2008/07/different-technical-approaches-...

Peng
www.midessexray.com

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Permalink Reply by Alejandro Ramirez on October 16, 2009 at 11:44am

Hi Vijay
I know it is been more than a year, did you get your scanner? We are in San Francisco and we have an educational program for CT cardiac imaging CVCTA (www.cvcta.com), we have a Thoshiba Aquilion 64 and Aquilion 1 (equivalent to 320) in Las Vegas.

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Permalink Reply by Markus Holzhauer on October 25, 2009 at 11:27am

I personally worked with all three scanners doing some cardiac CTA's - I personally like the GE scanner the best if I had a choice - I like their software better, their prospective gating in my eyes is the best of the three vendors and also they have with Dr.Dowe in Atlantic city a good training facility (although their training is more geared towards outpatient imaging)
the other scanners are okay too......and might be cheaper - but if there was a choice I would go with GE

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Permalink Reply by pham manh cuong on October 26, 2009 at 1:32am

hi,
I am a radiologist. I have been worked with Siemens Sensation 64 for 3 years, next hospital has a GE's VCT. Both machines are used for cardac CT, vascular and conventional CT. So i only have some experience with two kind of those machines especialy in cardiac CT.
Price: GE VCT is more expensive (in my country).
Tube life: GE is shorter (my point of view).
The VCT is smaller and air coolling, so, i think it requires a smaller room compare with Siemens Sensation.
Both are need betabloc to reduce heart rate so if you use oral betabloc, it is very difficult for you to take more than 10 patients a day (our experience).
Both are need the patient to hold breath, but GE need less (about 6-8s) compare with 10-12s in Siemens. This is very important with old and week patient. Reason: detector width in GE is 40mm but in Siemens is 28mm.
Quality of image: GE is a lite better than Siemens.
Time to interpret a patient: same, depend on skill.

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