Newton Regional gets new CT machine

Cheryl Owens/The Newton Record
The Newton Record

NEWTON Fri, May 16 2008

— Newton Regional Hospital has just received a new piece of equipment that should make a big difference in patients receiving the right care in Newton and the surrounding area with a higher level of comfort, access and convenience. The new equipment is Toshiba’s Aquillon 16-Slice Computerized Tomography (CT) Scanner that represents a leap in imaging quality.
“We are very excited about our new CT scanner and all the new exams that we are able to do in-house,” Director of Radiology Brian Sibley said. “With our old single slice scanner, there were exams that we were not able to perform, and they had to be sent to larger facilities with more advanced technology.”
In addition to scans of the head, neck, chest, abdoman, pelvis, spine and extremities, the new scanner has the ability for advanced imaging such as CT angiography which looks at arteries throughout the body.
“Exams such as pulmonary embolsim studies, renal artery studies, and corotid artery studies are a few of these procedures,” Sibley said. “One thing many people do not know is that all exams whether x-ray, CT, MRI, or ultrasound are all interpreted by Meridian Radiology Associates. This is the same radiology group that reads exams for Rush, Riley, and Anderson’s hospital in Meridian.”
With gas prices steadily rising, our radiology department can offer the same exams and have them interpreted the same as the larger hospitals in Meridian and we are currently the only hospital between Jackson and Meridian with this technology, as well as between Laurel and Philadelphia, Sibley said.
The new scanner is 30 times faster than the prior single slice scanners.

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