Eight times faster than conventional CT, and faster than any other multislice system on the market, the Mx8000 can complete a trauma survey in less than 45 seconds.
Conventional CT requires that patients hold their breath and remain completely immobile during the scan, which makes it very difficult to obtain an accurate image of some patients, particularly pediatric and geriatric patients. Because the Mx8000 can scan so quickly- even in a single breath- these patients now have access to technology that could be vital for timely and accurate diagnosis. This breathless speed is especially critical for trauma patients, where the speed with which the patient can be diagnosed and treated is often be the difference between life and death. This speed also makes cardiac scanning a reality because images of the heart can be captured between beats.
In addition to high-speed acquisition, the Mx8000 is capable of reconstructing images in one-quarter the time of any scanner available today.
One aspect of high-speed scanning that is often overlooked is how fast the reconstructed images are available for viewing and diagnosis. Scanning the patients at breakthrough speeds and then waiting a long time for the results to materialize limits the advantage of this speed. With Mx8000, patients who have difficulty holding their breath can be scanned so quickly that it doesn't matter, and the physician can see the results almost instantly, make a decision and provide intervention or treatment immediately.
Further enhancing the significance of the ultrafast scan speed is the Mx8000's unprecedented image quality, providing detail never before seen in CT.
CT technology allows clinicians to see very thin cross-sections- or slices-of the anatomy; the thinner the slice, the better the resolution. The Mx8000 captures slices that no other multislice scanner in the world can achieve. With unprecedented resolution, submillimeter objects can be seen in all imaging planes.
With nearly a decade of experience in developing multislice technology, Marconi already has more than 400 multislice systems installed and more than 10 million multislice patient exams completed.
