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Introducing the Aquilion One CT

There are only a few in the world and only one in the Green Bay area. It’s called Aquilion One CT and it is new technology that allows your doctor to see 4D, moving images of your beating heart in untold detail.

An image of a knee or shoulder can now be viewed as a moving image that reveals issues in how the joint moves, rather than a still picture.

Doctors can now get more comprehensive images of cancer, including the blood supply that is feeding it.

Strokes can be diagnosed in less time.

Patients who have problems remaining still or holding their breath can now have superior studies done with less stress and less radiation.

• The Aquilion One CT has more than five times greater detector coverage than the 64-Slice CT. This means that it can capture an image greater than 6 inches in width in 1 second or less with just one rotation. By comparison, the 64-Slice CT only has the capacity to capture about 1.3 inches of image at a time, and it takes longer to perform, up to 10 seconds.
• The wide image produced by the Aquilion One CT provides the volumetric data to produce a CT angiogram, venogram, digital subtraction angiogram, and whole-brain perfusion images. All of which can be conducted in a single pass of the brain.
• A whole heart can be captured in a single rotation. All this with even less radiation burden on the patient.
• In slower technology, capturing a quality image of a heart that is beating greater than 80 beats per minute is very difficult. The Aquilion One CT eliminates this as an issue.
• In less than a second, it can detect blockages in the heart and brain forming in blood vessels no bigger than a toothpick.

The Aquilion One CT can benefit many types of patients:

• Cancer
• Orthopedics
• Emergency Heart Care
• Stroke
• Pediatrics
• Neurology

For more information call 920 433-3643.

"We can produce a CT scan of the entire head in 1/3 of a second with half the amount of radiation exposure."

-Jeff Hoeksema, Bellin Health Team Leader, Radiation/Imaging Services