Voyage Round Your Heart ; Goodhealth Extraordinary New Imaging Techniques Let Doctors See the Workings of the Heart in Incredible Detail . . . Helping Them to Save Thousands More Lives
Linked as:
Summary
THESE remarkable pictures from the frontier of medical technology show a living, beating heart with a degree of detail and clarity that has never been seen before.
They have been taken with a 64-slice scanner - the latest and fastest type of computerised tomography.See the full content of this document
Extract
Voyage Round Your Heart ; Goodhealth Extraordinary New Imaging Techniques Let Doctors See the Workings of the Heart in Incredible Detail . . . Helping Them to Save Thousands More Lives
CT scanners have been widely used in hospitals for many years to show the internal workings of the body. They rely on computer analysed X-rays to create realistic pictures of organs. But this new generation of scanner can provide such sophisticated images that it promises to change not just the way heart patients are treated, but all surgery.
Not only are the images more precise but the speed at which the new machine works dramaticall...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
