LIONS GATE: “Hospital, has entered a new era of
medical imaging. with the opening’ of -its CT
Scanner. The computerized tomographic scanner
can. provide doctors with accurate and. detailed
information impossible to obtain with con-
ventional x-ray techniques.

Ribbon-cutting honours at ceremony November 17.
the official opening of the Although the Ministry of
CT scanner were shared by. ‘Health funds 75 per cent of
a ve
president, Peter A. White
and President of the
Auxiliary to Lions Gate
Hospital, Ann Wilson, at a

liary’s
tribution of $256, 000 ‘was a
vital component. in the
hospital’s ability to. purchase

DEMONSTRATING the cr scanner at LGH is Dr. Kumar Banerjee, a radiologist. The » scanner, which carries a
price tag of over one million dollars, will be used to give information on internal injuries.

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stallation costs totalled an
additional $189,000... -
Other guests of honour at
the opening were
representatives from the
North Shore Division of the
Emergency Health Services
Group, the Ladies Auxiliary
ef the Fraternal Order of
Eagles and the Ladies

the Royal Canadian Legion
who also contributed funds
towards the purchase of the
scanner as did a number of

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organizations
dividuals. .
Conventional x-ray
techniques involve placing a
patient on a table with a film
beneath the portion of the
body to be x-rayed. A cone
of x-rays from a_ tube
suspended above the patient

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The result is a two-
dimensional view of the
interior of the body showing
the contrast between bone

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and tissue, but very little
distinction between the
tissues because of their
similarity in density. Also,
since the picture is taken
from directly above the
patient, all the objects are
superimposed on

one
another. Invasive
techniques, including ex-

ploratory surgery, are often .

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fortable radiological test
involving injecting dye into
an artery leading to the brain
and then taking x-rays.

With the CT Scanner, a
diagnostic procedure could
be performed in 30 to 40
minutes with nothing more
invasive than an intravenous
tube in one arm. The con-
ventional radiograph would

_-neeessary —to—obtain—-mere— give little. indication- of the-

information.
The CT scanner, which
has been described as the

most important - x-ray
development since the
advent of x-ray itself,

provides a computer recon-
structed picture of a “slice”

of the patient’s anatomy with —

a complete and detailed view
of all organs, tissues and
bone contained within that
slice.

The computer’s ability to
distinguish between ap-
proximately 4,000 shades of
grey enables it to show a
high degree of contrast
between the different soft
tissues.

If a
patient

vehicle accident
admitted to

emergency with a head.

injury and a suspected blood
clot, conventional x-ray
procedures would call for an
arteriography, a _ time-
consuming “and uncom-

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size and scope of the
problem, but the “slices”
provided by the CT Scanner
would show the exact extent
and outline of the clot.

Although a CT scan is not
appropriate for all diagnostic’
needs, it can be an extremely
valuable tool in investigating
many problems, says LGH
radiologist, Dr. Kumar
Banerjee.

When dealing with many
head injuries, suspected
tumors of the brain.or other
internal organs, spread of a
tumor from one organ to
another, inflamatory
conditions of internal organs
and ballooning of aorta, the
CT Scanner can _ provide

.doctors with a great amount
of detailed diagnostic in-

formation without sub-
jecting the patient to in-
vasive techniques.
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