About Xoran MiniCAT
MiniCAT CT: Xoran Technologies Inc. developed a specialty CT scanner called MiniCAT™, which is a uniquely upright, compact, ultra-low dose, volume CT scanner primarily designed for capturing isotropic spatial resolution images of the sinuses, temporal bones and skull base, with slices as small as 0.3mm.
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With MiniCAT, Xoran optimized the radiation dose and image quality per ALARA for those imaging tasks. "We managed to reduce the dose several times compared to reported dosages with conventional CT" says Pedja Sukovic, President and co-founder of Xoran Technologies Inc. "The effective dose of our sinus scan for example is 0.17 mSv." The FDA estimates that the effective dose of a sinus scan on a conventional full-body CT scanner is .96 mSv, while AIM (American Imaging Management) estimates the effective dose on conventional CT to be as high as 2.0 mSv . Mayo Clinic researchers found MiniCAT CT is 10-12x less radiation than conventional CT.
References:
(1)http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ct/risks.html
http://xorantech.com/contentHTML/miniCAT_effective_dose.php
http://www.americanimaging.net/safety/PatientExposureTool.html
(2)"Dosimetry and Image Quality Evaluation of a Dedicated Conebeam CT System for Sinus and Temporal Bone Application." Authors: L Yu*, T Vrieze, M Bruesewitz, J Kofler, C McCollough, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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