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Jersey Shore University Medical Center Now Providing Patients Game-Changing Photon-counting PCCT Scanning
Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) is now providing patients with the Naeotom Alpha.Pro from Siemens Healthineers, the world’s second dual-source scanner with photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) technology, in HOPE Tower on the academic medical center’s campus.
PCCT registers each X-ray photon that passes through the patient to acquire more detailed anatomical images with functional information. With this technology, clinicians can evaluate small structures precisely and with fewer artifacts (features leading to misinterpretation) using lower radiation doses than conventional CT. Since Siemens Healthineers introduced the first clinically available PCCT scanner in 2021, over 2 million patients worldwide have been scanned with PCCT.
The Naeotom Alpha.Pro combines PCCT’s precision with the speed of dual-source technology using A.I.-powered productivity. It can achieve scan speeds as fast as 491 mm/sec with 66 ms temporal resolution. This high level of speed can benefit pulmonology patients, by reducing the need for breath-holding; pediatric patients, by reducing the need for sedation; and cardiology patients, by reducing the need for beta-blockers to slow their heart rate.
Dual-source PCCT scanning supports complex tasks such as automatic analysis and evaluation of highly calcified coronary arteries as well as time-critical stroke and trauma treatments.
Hackensack University Medical Center will also soon offer Alpha.Pro, expanding patient access to this groundbreaking technology in New Jersey.
For more information about the Alpha.Pro PCCT, call the Outpatient Radiology department, at 732-897-2067.