SAN DIEGO, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Imaging
Healthcare Specialists (IHS) is proud to announce the opening of a
new GE Discovery ST PET/CT system at its Laurel imaging facility in
Hillcrest. With the opening of this new scanner, IHS now
offers state-of-art PET/CT imaging at two locations, in Hillcrest
and in Encinitas. This system integrates a Positron Emission
Tomography (PET) scanner with a multi-slice Computed Tomography
(CT) scanner and is capable of 2D and 3D imaging with a larger bore
for all patient studies or sizes. This Discovery ST system provides
physicians with more sensitivity, speed, resolution, and diagnostic
confidence when detecting cancer and other medial conditions.
The “ST” in Discovery ST stands for “See and Treat,” which is
what this new system allows physicians to do. Built from the ground
up with Six Sigma methodology, the Discovery ST assists physicians
in seeing the disease and planning radiation therapy treatment. The
new Discovery ST system will shorten scan times and less time on
the table means faster results and greater patient comfort. With
the device, physicians at Imaging Healthcare Specialists are able
to encounter better image quality and greater confidence in image
interpretation. It allows physicians to not only ‘see’ the disease,
but to begin to ‘treat’ it.
GE’s Discovery ST combines the fastest and most sophisticated
computed tomography (CT) technology with the most advanced Positron
Emission Tomography (PET) technology – all in a single exam. Since
most types of cancer have greater metabolic activity than normal
tissue, the PET portion of the exam detects those areas of high
metabolic activity in cancer tissue. The PET images are then fused
with the CT images which provides for precise anatomic localization
of the increased metabolic activity.
Mark Schechter, MD, lead PET/CT physician for Imaging Healthcare
Specialists states that “PET/CT imaging has fundamentally changed
how medical
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