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Biotech / Medical : IMAT - ultrafast tomography for coronary artery disease

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To: James Strauss who wrote (2358)	4/7/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: Steven Durrington	Read Replies (3) of 3725

One big potential use of ultrafast CT is "CT Fluoroscopy". This is near to real time CT scanning. Conventional fluoroscopy and digital fluoroscopy, such as what is used to guide catheters during angiograms and to track barium through the GI system, are 2 dimensional images. Also, they inherently cannot distinguish between structures of close radiographic density, and only disparate structures like air, bone and radiographic contrast media are seen well. CT distinguishes between subtle soft tissue densities much better than conventional x-raying, and also gives cross-sectional images which give us a better spatial relationship between structures in the body. Real time CT has a lot of potential for guiding needles to take FNA biopsies of tumours and other growths. It could also be used to more accurately place drainage catheters for nephrostomies, biliary drainages, abcess drainages and other such procedures. Regards, Durro

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