Is it possible to obtain a 3D CT angiogram from arterial to venous phase using 128 slice scanners?
Dear Mr. Galea,
yes and no. The company Toshiba has introduced a dynamic angio for CT with Aquillion One Neuro about three years ago. As far as I know that machine holds 256 or more rows. Informal information by sales representatives gave rise to the hope that they have adopted the algorithm to fewer rows. Since all Toshiba CT´s come with two workstations (one directly attached to the machine itself and and one additional from a third party vendor called Vitrea from Vital systems) there might a good chance that the algorithm has been transferred to the Vitrea.
Therefore there might be the chance to feed third party raw data into the machines that are attached to the Toshiba machines.
That leaves the generation of raw data to the individual CT machine. The x-ray tube will be used extensively in this endevaour; in addition to a huge a amount of raw data this may be the limiting factor. The capacity of the x-ray tube and the speed of the data transfer are the limiting factors, but these issues can be discussed with the technician that service the CT-machine you plan to use. I would like to suggest to ask the service technician of the CT in plannningabout the technical possibilities of your CT machine. That might generate reliable information.
Regards
E. Elolf, MD
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