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Johns Hopkins housing and testing only 256-slice CT scanner in North America
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!Johns Hopkins Medicine has installed for three months of initial safety and clinical testing a 256-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner, believed to be the world's most advanced CT imaging software and machinery.
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Working with dogs and using the latest in imaging software and machinery, also known as a 64-slice CT scanner, Johns Hopkins heart specialists have developed a fast and accurate means of tracking blood that has been slowed down by narrowing of the coronary arteries. Researchers say it took them less than half the time of exercise stress tests and echocardiograms currently used to find early warning of vessels more likely to become blocked and cause heart attack.
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- The discovery of America: The revolutionary claims of a dead historian
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- Targeted HIV testing more effective than CDC mass testing proposal
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- August-September GEOSPHERE Media Highlights
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- A Plan For Reintroducing Megafauna To North America
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