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Article: REVOLUTIONARY DEVICE LOS ROBLES GETS $1.7 MILLION CT SCANNER.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- January 24, 2000
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Byline: Krystn Shrieve Staff Writer
THOUSAND OAKS - Los Robles Regional Medical Center recently installed a revolutionary, $1.7 million CT scanner that allows technicians to capture multiple images of a patient's anatomy six times faster than other machines.
The state-of-the-art Computerized Tomography scanner can capture an image in 60 seconds, a procedure that in the past may have taken 12 minutes, hospital officials said. The CT scanner, which has been in use at the hospital since December, will be demonstrated to the community in the hospital's radiology department Wednesday.
``This has almost revolutionized CT scanning,'' said Jim ...