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Biotech / Medical : IMAT - ultrafast tomography for coronary artery disease -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dwight martin who wrote (2960)	3/18/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: John R Resseger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3725

I talked on the phone to a regional sales manager for Imatron last Friday. He said the GE sales force has been pushing an upgrade for conventional CT machines for doing a similar test to the IMAT machine. They have since been educated that the IMAT scanner is the way to go. He said going forward that a lot of sales were going to happen. At some point the Imat scanner will be the first test proscribed. The machines last along time and require little in upkeep. The actual cost to a hospital that bought one and used it for ten years, 364 days, a year, and 12 scans a day is less than $30. I overheard a person lamenting the death of a 39 year old neighbor of a heart attack, good health good shape… the person neat to him piped in about a 42 year old with the same thing … all in the last week. I said there is a machine that could have picked it up, but the doctors don't like it because it cuts them out of the loop. Dwight The lungs get scan as a matter of course when the heart gets scanned. Some places have a Radiologist look at 50 slices(images) and tack on an extra charge.