Agency fields Army's most advanced CT scanner

General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, or GLWACH, located on Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is now home to the Army's most advanced Computerized Tomography, or CT, system, able to produce a 3D image of the entire heart in less than one heartbeat.

The new system, which is the Toshiba Aquilion One CT scanning system, is able to take such sophisticated images - up to 640 image slices in a single scan - because of its 8-inch detector, which is twice as wide as other comparable machines. The wider detector allows the system to capture complete images of organs, such as the heart, in one scan rather than multiple scans that have to be "stitched together" electronically.

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