According to Doug Ryan, director of the CT Business Unit at TAMS, the Aquilion LB allows imaging departments to immediately take advantage of Toshibas award winning CT technologies in a large-bore platform.

Toshiba has dramatically expanded the dimensions of CT with the Aquilion LB, Ryan said. The new QuantumPLUS detector and the 90 cm bore provide our customers a unique and industry-leading combination of technology that can be used more effectively in interventional and trauma applications.


With the industrys largest bore opening of 90 cm and a 70 cm acquired field-of-view, the Aquilion LB makes it possible to accurately scan patients of all sizes in various positions for unparalleled image acquisition.

In addition, the new QuantumPLUS detectors acquired field-of-view is 40 percent greater than other large bore CT systems. This larger field-of-view covers more diagnostic anatomy with greater accuracy for improved diagnosis and treatment.

Advanced CT Scanner for Oncology
Building on Toshibas Quantum multi-row detector, the most sophisticated CT detector commercially available for high-speed, high-resolution imaging with the lowest noise, the QuantumPLUS detector features additional channels that provide for the 70 cm large field-of-view. The QuantumPLUS detector is the only detector to provide three different slice-width acquisitions, enabling the Aquilion LB CT to acquire isotropic images in all anatomical planes while achieving the industrys best low-contrast resolution using the lowest dose.

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Toshiba to Host Presentation on Coronoary Artery Imaging

On November 27 & 28, 2005, Dr. Joao Lima, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the international CorE 64 investigational team, will speak about coronary artery imaging during a presentation titled: "Coronary Artery Imaging with Aquilion 64." The presentation is aimed at providing a practical overview to cardiac imaging using the latest multislice CT technology.

The event will take place on Monday, Nov. 28 at 6:30 p.m. CST at the Peninsula Hotel Chicago, 108 E. Superior St. (at Michigan Avenue), Chicago, IL 60611. Presentations for international attendees also are scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 27 at 6:30 p.m. CST. This session is open to the media and professional attendance is by invitation only.

About CorE 64
In November 2004, Toshiba launched CorE 64 (Coronary Evaluation on 64), an international collaboration with its foremost luminary partners to investigate the use of multislice CT as the primary diagnostic tool for detecting cardiovascular diseases and disorders, as compared to cardiac catheterization. The CorE 64 multi-center study participants include: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston; Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands; Humboldt University, Campus Charit Mitte in Germany; INCOR Heart Institute of the School of Medicine Hospital, So Paulo University in Brazil; Mount Elizabeth in Singapore; Toronto General in Canada; and Iwate Medical University in Japan.

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