64-Slice Cardiac Scan

64-Slice Cardiac Scan
The exquisitly detailed Coronary Artery images called Cardiac Scan or Heart Scan are obtained from Siemens Sensation-64 Slice CT Scanner. This scanner has a special X-Ray tube on one side of the patient & the detectors on the opposite side. This tube is capable of performing over 3 rotations per second around the patient. In each rotation of 0.33 seconds, we get 64-Slices. That means we get approx. 194 Slices/second.
Speed is extremely important in our ability to freeze the heart which is ever moving structure. The Scans are gated to the ECG which enables the data acquisition in a specific phase. With this fast speed, we can scan nearly as fast as the heart beats.
The older, traditional, invasive procedure is insertion of cardiac catheter and angiography – performed in a hospital and usually requiring anesthesia and a one or more days hospital stay.The new 64 Slice Cardiac Scanning procedure is safe, fast, Non-Inasive & lasting a few minutes. It has proven to be a breakthrough in technology for the diagnosis of heart disease. The procedure involves No Catheter, No Anaesthesia, No Admission.A cardiac CT scan can provide an image of the heart and its arteries so detailed that the presence of plaque, narrowing or stenosis of the arteries, calcium scoring and abnormal heart vessels can be determined with a comparable degree of detail and accuracy previously only available through an invasive procedure such as cardiac catheterization or angiography. The presence of any of these conditions could put an individual, even a strong healthy athlete or someone with no symptoms,

What all 64 Slice Cardiac Scan can do?
It is a superfast CT Scanner taking 64 slices in 0.33 seconds i.e. 194 slices in one second. The resolution of the pictures will be excellent and the doctor can pick up very minute lesions i.e. chances of missing any lesion are almost negligible.This machine can undertake the following tests:
CT CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
CT Angiography –ABDOMINAL AORTATHORACIC AORTA PERIPHERAL VESSELS CEREBRAL(Brain)CAROTID(Neck)RENAL(Kidney)PULMONARY(Lung).
CT 3-Dimensional Reconstruction of all/any study
Evaluation of Chest Pain- To rule out Pulmonary embolism/dissection of aorta/coronary artery disease
CHEST – High Resolution CT
ABDOMEN (Upper abdomen, Lower Abdomen, Whole Abdomen)
Pre-Transplant Triple phase scan(Liver, Kidney)
UROGRAPHY
HEAD PLAIN
HEAD CONTRAST
HEAD PLAIN & CONTRAST
SPINE CERVICAL
SPINE THORACIC
SPINE LUMBAR
WHOLE SPINE
KUB
ORBIT/NECK/PNS
LIMB/EXTREMITY
JOINT (PER JOINT)
CT GUIDED FNAC/ASPIRATION /CATHETER DRAINAGE/BIOPSY
VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY/COLONOSCOPY
STROKE/TUMOR (PERFUSION) Evaluation
PRE-IMPLANT DENTA SCAN