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Advances in technology and techniques yield faster, more detailed and more precise images. At Children's Hospital Boston, we continually update our equipment and protocols in order to provide the most accurate diagnoses for our pediatric patients.
Our facilities include:
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- State-of-the-art radiographic X-ray and fluoroscopic units.
- Computed Tomography -- Three CT scanners (64-slice Siemens, 32-slice GE, and 16-slice GE) at the main campus in Boston and one 40-slice Siemens CT scanner at Children's Hospital Boston at Waltham.
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- Six MR units in Boston and Waltham. In Boston: a retractable, ceiling mounted Siemens 1.5-Tesla Symphony (MR/OR) operating room unit; a Siemens 3-Tesla (3T) TIM TRIO; and two GE 1.5T units. In Waltham: A 1.5T Siemens Avanto MR unit, a 3T TIM TRIO (used mainly for research) and an MR simulator.
- Nuclear Medicine -- Five Siemens gamma cameras for high quality SPECT and planar imaging (three dual-detector systems and two single-detector systems) and one portable Digirad gamma camera at Boston; one Siemans SPECT dual-detector scanner at Waltham.
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) -- One GE Advance NXi scanner at the hospital in Boston.
- Angiography -- One single-plane Siemens flat panel angiography system with ultrasound and 2 biplane Siemens flat panel angiography systems with ultrasound; one with dynaCT.
- Ultrasound -- Eleven state-of-the-art ultrasound units (Siemens, Philips and GE) with 3-D capability in Boston; two Siemens units with 3-D in Waltham; two Philips units and 1 Siemens unit (all with 3-D capability) at Children's Hospital Boston Lexington.
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Our Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Voice Recognition (VR) applications enable us to provide results to referring physicians immediately via the hospital's Web-based Results Reporting application. Faster results means that patients have shorter waits for diagnosis and treatment.
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