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Hospital completes installation of new CT
scanner
allowing better, faster images |
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July 6, 2016 |
by Lauren Kuczka
Marketing and Community Relations
Boundary Community Hospital
After a couple weeks of swapping out old
equipment and installing new equipment, the
hospital now has a brand new CT scan machine
which continues to keep our local hospital in
line with current CT scanning technology.
Boundary Community Hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging
Department recently completed installation of a
new Siemens Definition AS 64 Computerized
Tomography (CT) Scanner. With this new
equipment, Radiologic Technologists at the
hospital can obtain better, finer scans and
images for more accurate diagnoses, and can do
so in less time. The technology used with this
new scanner also allows for significantly
decreased radiation without sacrificing image
quality. All of the Radiologic Technologists at
the hospital have upgraded their certifications
so they can operate the new equipment.
According to Bill Blumenauer, one of the
hospital's Radiologic Technologists, “The image
quality we are seeing with this new equipment
has improved from an already stellar system. The
Siemens hardware and software give us the
ability to do scans with pinpoint accuracy and
to do it in less time than before. It’s
important that we be able to do tests and scans
right away, especially in an emergency
situation, and this new tool makes us more
effective.”
“At Boundary Community Hospital, our goal is to
provide the community with timely modern
radiology services that are second to none,”
says Hospital CEO Craig Johnson. “The attractive
lease/purchase program offered to us from
Siemens allowed us to trade in the eleven year
old scanner on new, superior equipment without
raising the costs of a CT image. As always,
Boundary Community Hospital is committed to
providing accessible, high-quality,
cost-effective services to everyone in our
community.”
A CT scanner combines a specialized x-ray
machine and a computer to produce images one
slice at a time, somewhat like a spiral ham. The
scan, completed as the patient lies on a table,
is painless. Once the scan is finished, the
Technologist presents the cross-sectional,
multi-dimensional images to the Radiologist for
interpretation.
The Diagnostic Imaging Department at Boundary
Community Hospital is 100% digital and fully
integrated with other hospitals in North Idaho
and Eastern Washington through the Northwest
Hospital Alliance Picture Archiving and
Communications System. This makes it possible
for x-ray, ultrasound, and CT images and reports
to be shared and viewed with other hospitals and
specialists in the area when needed, and with
the patient's physician. This system eliminates
the use of old-style x-ray film and plastic
x-rays, making faster image interpretation and
more accurate diagnoses possible.
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