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ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY                                                                        A Special Thank You


                                                                                                                                   to the
                Palm Beach Gardens                                                                                               June 2017


              Medical Center Unveils                                                                                     Hosts of the South

              Advanced Dual Source                                                                                        Florida Healthcare

                         CT Imaging                                                                                        Networking Group



          The SOMATOM Definition Flash from Siemens Health ineers
         arrives at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center providing patients
         with a new advanced radiologic offering. The Definition Flash is                                                    HEALTHSOUTH
         one of the most important developments in diagnostic imaging.
         The dual source, 2 x 128-slice CT is better at freezing motion than                                                REHABILITATION
         a single source CT, allowing a patient’s heart along with the arter-
         ies and anatomy to be better captured in a single beat, even at                                                       HOSPITAL OF
         higher heart rates.
          The SOMATOM® Definition Flash from Siemens Healthineers                                                               MIAMI and
         creates new opportunities for patient-friendly imaging at Palm
         Beach Gardens Medical Center. The SOMATOM Definition Flash                                                             CLEVELAND
         is one of the fastest computed tomography (or CT) scanners
         available. For most adults, it can image the entire chest in less                                                   CLINIC FLORIDA
         than a second and it can scan the whole body in less than 5 sec-
         onds. For children, many scans can be completed in less than one                                                    For information about
         second. With such fast imaging times, Palm Beach Gardens                                                             our next meeting of
         Medical Center can generally perform these studies using less
         radiation than conventional CT scanners – meaning a safer imag-                                                      SFHNG, please email
         ing procedure.                                                                                                             charles@
          The SOMATOM Definition Flash also employs Siemens FAST
         CARE technology, which allows technologists at Palm Beach                                                          southfloridahospitalnews.com
         Gardens Medical Center to conduct high quality imaging that
         minimizes radiation dose levels, while spending more time with
         patients. In addition, the Flash offers a new technique for reduc-
         ing artifacts from metal, allowing better imaging of patients with
         implants.
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