For example, GE's LightSpeed VCT, the fastest selling product in GE Healthcare's history, is the first volumetric computed tomography (CT) scanner to combine record-breaking acquisition speed and high-resolution capabilities in a single CT system. As a result, the LightSpeed VCT is the only CT scanner capable of 5-Beat Cardiac, an exclusive application that enables physicians to scan the human heart in as few as five beats.

GE originally designed the LightSpeed VCT to easily integrate with its PET technology. As noted above, during the conference, GE unveiled the company's new Discovery VCT, the world's first combination positron emission tomography (PET) and volume CT system for cardiac imaging applications. This new PET/CT system, which will enable clinicians to simultaneously access essential functional and anatomical patient data, has the potential to transform the way physicians diagnose and treat heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses.


In addition, GE is showcasing its "reading room of the future" at RSNA, which borrows technologies from all of GE's businesses to enhance and modernize reading rooms where radiologists review images. The new reading room's advanced ergonomic features are specifically designed to enhance clinician efficiency and, ultimately, patient care.

Also during RSNA, the GE Learning Center will provide the company's customer clinicians with how-to learning sessions on innovative clinical application training to enhance their knowledge and encourage the exchange of ideas, clinical applications and educational experiences. The training sessions will focus on applications in three important clinical areas: cardiovascular disease, oncology and neurology.

"GE is leading the industry in bringing better tools to radiologists," said Hogan. "As we enter a new era of less invasive and earlier diagnosis of disease, radiologists will need these tools to peer deeper into the pathways of disease and provide precise, diagnostic answers to the most complicated clinical cases."

GE's Technology Pavilion at RSNA showcased the depth and breadth of knowledge that GE Healthcare brings to our current understanding of disease. Expertise in genomics, proteomics, biomarkers, and imaging join and enable a re-imagining of patient diagnosis. In addition to providing novel ways to diagnose and stage disease, these technologies will show in a matter of hours or days - compared to weeks or months today - whether a therapy is working, enabling clinicians to adjust a patient's treatment immediately if a drug is ineffective.

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