CT Facility

CBI's CT facility is located in the MRI Building. It has a GE 64-slice PET/CT Discovery VCT Scanner with a gantry speed of 0.4 seconds and is equipped with cardiac gating.

 

Research studies, including coronary artery calcification detection, cardiac function analysis, and lung cancer screening as part of the ACRIN NLST have been performed utilizing this scanner.

The facility is equipped with all necessary supplies, including resuscitation equipment. There is a dedicated participant dressing and waiting area. A dedicated (100% FTE) CT registered technologist performs CT scans.

All image data is HIPAA compliant and can be networked (DICOM format) to GE Workstations, TeraRecon servers, Mac workstations, or other servers for analysis by investigators.

GE 64-slice PET/CT Discovery VCT Scanner

• 64 slices per rotation in axial and cine scan modes
• 80, 100, 120, 140 kVp
• 10 - 800 mA
• Maximum power: 0.8 – 100 kW
• Maximum storage capacity:  8.0 MHU
• Scanning FOV:  9.6 - 50 cm
• Typical scan FOV:  Peds head, Head, Small, Cardiac, and Large
• Patient port size:  70 cm diameter
• Minimum pixel Size:  0.1875 mm
• Raw data slice thickness:  0.625, 1.25, 2.5, 3.75, 5.0 mm
• Volume CT technology – highest isotropic resolution:  0.35 mm
• Auto Dose Management Software
• Linux Console with 16 images per second reconstruction time
• Helical, Axial, Cine, and Cardiac scanning
• Continuous 360° scanning with table incrementation in helical mode
• Rotation speed:  0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0 seconds
• Cardiac rotation speed:  0.35, 0.37, 0.40, 0.42, 0.45, 0.47, 0.50 seconds
• Pitch factors (nominal):  0.516:1, 0.984:1, 1.375:1
• Cardiac pitch factors:  0.16:1 to 0.325:1
• SmartPrep Contrast Monitoring Software, Direct 3D included
• Table weight limit:  450 lbs
• Cardiac gating
• Dual head power injector for bolus contrast injection / bolus contrast injection with saline flush
• Auto Dose Management Software