Revolutionary New Body Scanner

A revolutionary new scanner, the Philip’s Brilliance CT machine, gives 3D crystal-clear images which allows doctors to reduce the human body down to bones and blood vessels. There is no commentary on this video. SKY

Philips yesterday unveiled their 256-slice scanner that renders 3-D images of the body like never before. The $2-million Brilliance CT machine can capture the body’s skeleton, organs and blood vessels in the minutest of detail, and was unveiled yesterday in Chicago, at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting.

Philips’ scanner can give a patient a full body scan in less than a minute — and exposes them to 80 per cent less radiation than a traditional X-ray machine. The machine scans the body as well as rotating around it, sending out 256 pulses every one-third of a second. It is so powerful that it can capture an unblurred image of an entire heart in less than two heartbeats.

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