Tulare County - With the goal and commitment to provide its patients with the best in health care, Visalia Medical Clinic, Inc., has added the SOMATOM Sensation scanner from Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., to its radiology department. The new CT scanner improves diagnosis, and thus the treatment of patients in the Central Valley.
The new SOMATOM CT provides the finest image quality while reducing X-ray dose to the patient. With its new Siemens SOMATOM Sensation CT scanner, the Visalia Medical Clinic offers a patient-friendly environment designed for comfort and the best patient care. System speed and reliability mean you spend little time in the scanner and less time waiting for the results.
“Our new CT scanner provides us with outstanding diagnostic information by enabling us to perform multi-slice CT on a routine basis,” said Darrin Smith, M.D., a radiologist with Visalia Medical Clinic. “And this scanner also allows us to significantly decrease the radiation dose that the patient receives.”
“The images are 3-dimensional and provide optimal resolution,” said Caroline Millar, M.D., a radiologist with Visalia Medical Clinic, “and CT is an excellent technique to diagnose disorders throughout the body.”
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