Seattle King5 TV’s Jean Enerson reported recently on UW Medical Center’s installation of the GE Revolution CT scanner.

The new technology of the Revolution features the following:

• Much longer and wider detector
  • (16 cm vs. 4 cm)
• Much faster rotation speed and scanning
  • (0.28 seconds – 70 G’s centrifugal force)
• Much better radiation dose lowering technology
  • ASIR-V, auto kVp, density modulated auto mA

16 cm wide-detector array: Whole organ scanning on one 0.2 second rotation

Currently, the Revolution CT scanner is being used at UW Medicine for scans of the heart, blood vessels, and organs that involve more than one pass and the evaluation of transplanted organs. In the future, we intend to expand further into:

• TAVR
• All aortograms
• Cardiac
  • coronaries, perfusion, congen., ablation
• All misc. vascular studies
  • Renal arteries, HA, runoffs, carotids, COW, grafts/stents, venograms
• Non-Dual-Energy multi-pass exams
  • Liver, pancreas, IVP
• Perfusion (brain, transplants, tumor)
• Workhorse (CAP, KUB, brain, spine)