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Editorial La Roche-sur-Yon
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Nov. 19, 2024 at 7:50 a.m.
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At the Departmental Hospital Center, the new spectral scanner was inaugurated on November 8 in La Roche-sur-Yon, during the International Day of Radiology.
It is aboutone of 38 devices of this type in France and the only one in the Great West to date.
The Philips Spectral CT 7500, which costs 1.5 million eurosrepresents the future of medical imaging paving the way for more precise and faster diagnoses, while improving the comfort of patients and healthcare professionals.
Ce futuristic scanner presents multiple advantages, including its ability to reduce the amount of iodized contrast media injectedwhich means fewer potential side effects for patients.
It also offers more results in a single exposure and with a optimal image quality.
“It allows us to see things that we don’t usually see at all,” explains Antoine Chéreau, president of the CHD supervisory board, to soberly summarize the advantages of this new technology.
Thanks to multi-energy analysis, this scanner provides very detailed spectral maps, which can also avoid other complementary examinations
What improves diagnostic relevance and makes it a real asset in faster and more appropriate patient care.
“But with so much information, it also implies changes in our practices. We cannot stay in the comfort of habits,” she continues.
A second spectral scanner for 2025
“A small revolution in the field of medical imaging,” rejoices Philippe Fradin, president of the Establishment Medical Commission (CME).
“The search for excellence is the hallmark of the CHD,” say those responsible for the establishment, which is part of an investment dynamic in order to modernize its equipment and improve the quality of care.
“Ten million euros in 2023, eleven million in 2024 which allowed us to equip ourselves, among other things, with radiotherapy accelerators, respirators in intensive care, a surgical robot,” recalls Pascale Ticos, the interim director.
Et a second spectral scanner is expected in early 2025.
Cutting-edge equipment which plays a key role in the attractiveness of the CHD, while medical desertification remains a major challenge for the department. “You always have to be one step ahead,” insists Antoine Chéreau.
Where does International Day of Radiology come from?
International Radiology Day refers to the discovery of the existence of X-rays on November 8, 1895 by the German physicist, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, aged 50. He was then interested in the penetration of cathode rays into glass. He took the first x-ray on December 22, 1895 by inserting his wife's hand between a Crookes tube and a photographic plate. The following year, the use of X-rays to produce medical images spread throughout the world. This discovery earned Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen the Nobel Prize in physics in 1901 and led some to say that “the inventor knew a lot about it”.
Sources: Culture, science and chemistry
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