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Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004

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GE installs CT scanner at Tata hospital

By Our Staff Correspondent

MUMBAI, DEC. 13. GE Healthcare, a unit of the $14 billion General Electric Company today announced the installation of the first PET/CT system in India, Discovery ST, at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai.

The PET/CT system integrates a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner with a 16-slice computer tomography (CT) scanner in a single exam. The discovery system is capable of 2D, 3D and 4D imaging with a larger bore for all patient studies.

"GE Discovery ST will help doctors more precisely visualise and diagnose diseases earlier than ever before and is the first of its kind to be installed in India," said V. Raja, President and CEO, GE Healthcare Technologies, India, and Managing Director & CEO, Wipro GE Healthcare. "In addition to its diagnostic precision, the GE Discovery ST can significantly reduce the time, expense and anxiety of multiple procedures for the patients that my take place over the course or even weeks." Dr. Raja added that the PET/CT machine allowed a diagnosis at the cellular level and is very sophisticated. While a single slice CT machine costs around $180,000, an advanced 64-slice machine costs up to $1.5 million.

Globally, around 350 such machines have been installed and according to Dr. Raja, a lot of customer interest has been evinced. The cost of the machine varies from $1.7 million to $2.2 million depending on the applications.

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