How do CT scans work

The patient is lying on a table that moves through a gantry, which is a doughnut-shaped ring. Narrow X-ray beams are fired through the body of the patient by the gantry's rotating X-ray tube. Directly opposite the source, digital detectors catch the X-rays. During a CT examination, you lie in a tunnel-like machine supplied by the CT Scan Machine Suppliers while the inside of the machine interchanges and takes a sequence of X-rays from diverse angles.

A powerful computer generates a 2D image of that slice of the body, which is normally between 0.04 and 0.4 inches (1 and 10 millimetres) thick, when the X-ray source has completed a full revolution. A doctor can more easily identify the patient's problem by using the computer to integrate many 2D slices into a 3D representation of the body. Depending on the part of the body that is being photographed, the scan itself usually only takes a few minutes.

A contrast agent might be administered to the patient. Depending on the target tissue, solutions containing contrast materials, such as iodine or barium, are administered orally, rectally, or directly into the circulation. The solution's components momentarily change how particular body tissues interact with X-rays, causing those tissues to appear differently in the final image.

Get the CT Scan machine from Aussin Intensive Care Private Limited which is listed on the Hospital Product Directory.