Wimmera Base Hospital radiographers and physicians are using a new GE Revolution Maxima computerised tomography, CT machine. 

Wimmera Radiology has installed the new 128-slice CT scanner, which will improve imaging quality to support a variety of orthopaedic and surgical tasks.

Chief radiographer Kristy Paine said the new CT machine had metal artefact-reduction software for improved image quality in areas with orthopaedic or other metallic surgical devices.

“Even with an increase in image quality, the overall radiation dose to the patient is reduced,” she said.

The new CT has three-dimension
reconstruction capabilities, which will aid in surgical planning by providing images with enhanced detail.

Ms Paine said the CT machine also had artificial intelligence that aided in optimal patient positioning. 

“With the old CT, if the patient was slightly out of position, even by a centimetre, the image quality would be affected,” she said.

“But this CT is capable of positioning itself perfectly to get the optimal quality in the image.” 

Lumus Imaging, which owns Wimmera Radiology, is training eight of its Horsham-based radiographers to be compliant with the new CT machine.

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