A notable study was recently conducted and completed at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) under the direction of Robert L. Dixon, Ph.D., Professor and Certified Medical Physicist, and Richard Hogan, CT Service Engineer. The objective of the study was to determine whether or not the Dunlee CT replacement tube delivers a dose within the published GE specifications for its own CT scanners equipped with the comparable GE tube.
Dose measurements were made on three clinical CT scanners of each type (GE VCT and LightSpeed-16* scanners) with the appropriate Dunlee replacement tubes installed by in-house CT service engineers.
Findings confirm that Dunlee replacement tubes for both the GE VCT scanner and the GE LightSpeed -16 slice scanners were found to deliver a radiation dose to the phantom which is indistinguishable from that of the GE tube it replaces as specified in the respective GE technical manuals for each scanner model.
For a complimentary copy of the study, go to
http://www.dunlee.com/content.cfm/2011_press_releases.
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