New Scanner Takes Stunning Images of Internal Organs

Philips Medical Systems has recently unveiled a new medical scanner that can take images of the inside of the body with stunning precision.

Called the Brilliance Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner, the machine generates images by taking X-ray images that last only a few milliseconds. Like other tomography machines, Brilliance takes images of slices of the human body and combines them to create realistic images of organs, blood vessels, and other body parts.

The Brilliance machine is called a 256-slice X-ray scanner because it sends out 256 pulses every 0.3 seconds, rotating around the body. The more images a scanner can take per second, the clearer the images turn out. At this rate, the machine can freeze-frame a beating heart in just two beats without blurring the image. It can also provide details such as the thickness of blood vessels and the state of heart valves.

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