Franciscan Health Rensselaer has installed and is now using a more comfortable, faster CT scanner.
The Canon Aquilion Prime SP 160 slice Ultra Helical CT scanner requires less time for scanning. That means patients have less exposure to radiation. The new machine also reduces noise and produces sharper images across many body regions.
“We are grateful to Franciscan for their continued capital investment for our hospital and community, and for its strategic standardization of technology across all Franciscan hospitals,” Carlos Vasquez said in a press release. Vasquez is vice president and chief operating officer, Franciscan Health Rensselaer and Crawfordsville.
“This 160 slice Ultra Helical CT scanner improves image quality, decreases radiation and scanning time, while generating high-definition results for a higher acuity of diagnosis by our clinicians,” Vasquez said.
The upgraded CT scanner provides a balance between image quality and dose for every patient, from pediatric to bariatric.
Franciscan Health Rensselaer is one of the 12 hospital campuses in the Franciscan Alliance health care system. It offers specialty services such as cardiology, orthopedics, urology, oncology and more through hospital-based outpatient clinics. Franciscan Alliance began in Lafayette in 1875. The health care network operates 260 locations in Indiana and Illinois.
