3.25.2008

Siemens Installs First High-Definition PET-CT

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Healthcare (http://www.siemens.com/healthcare) announces the official release and world's first clinical installation of HD-PET technology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The facility will leverage the new Biograph 40 TruePoint™ PET-CT system's High-Definition PET technology to offer consistently sharper and clearly defined images across the entire field of view.

Patients treated at UT Southwestern will benefit from the High-Definition PET-CT technology because their physicians will be able to more confidently delineate small lesions.

UT Southwestern always produced excellent PET images, even before HD-PET. But after the installation of Siemens HD-PET technology, the medical center produced even sharper images. Uptake in areas that previously seemed vague is now much clearer with HD-PET. In addition, HD-PET has added no additional processing time as compared to the previous system.

source Siemens Healthcare

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