WAUKESHA, WI - GE Healthcare has announced that Moreland Medical Center of Waukesha, Wisconsin has installed GE's new BrightSpeed^TM computed tomography (CT) system, which includes much of the proven advanced technology available on the company's volume CT system, the LightSpeed VCT. This new CT scanner provides exceptional image quality, productivity capabilities and reliability of the industry-leading LightSpeed systems, in a smaller package.

Moreland Medical Center's 16-slice BrightSpeed Elite scanner was installed in a similar footprint to a single-slice CT system, offering the medical center's staff sophisticated CT performance without the need to enlarge their existing radiology department.

"We were really excited to see that the new BrightSpeed fit within our existing space confines here at Moreland," said John Stager, director of ancillary services, Moreland Medical Center. "Our technologists and radiologists are very impressed with the quality and the speed of the BrightSpeed exams."
GE Healthcare has re-imagined multi-detector CT capabilities by developing the BrightSpeed series, attracting the interest of a broad audience of healthcare facilities similar to Moreland Medical Center, which have single slice CT systems and are interested in growing and improving the services for their referring physicians and patients. According to Gene Saragnese, vice president and general manager of the company's global Molecular Imaging and CT business, GE's new Brightspeed series is becoming popular with a variety of clinical settings, such as community hospitals and outpatient imaging centers, because it is powerful, easy-to-use and uncompromised. "By bringing the innovations of our LightSpeed VCT to the new BrightSpeed family, we are giving more clinicians access to excellent image quality and, in turn, helping them provide better patient care," said Saragnese.

The new BrightSpeed series also includes 4-, 8- slice systems in addition to the current 16-slice BrightSpeed Elite.

According to Saragnese, the BrightSpeed series with Volara digital data acquisition sets a high standard for image quality, resolution, and optimal-dose imaging. The BrightSpeed series also offers productivity tools to facilitate review and communication, such as direct volume visualization with direct multi planar reformat (MPR).

"This installation went so smoothly," said Stager. "It didn't impact on other areas of the imaging facilities or present any problems to the rest of the Moreland Center. We were very happy to find a scanner that could fit in the building and provide high quality images for a broad range of studies," said Stager.

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