每日大赛appMC is the First University Hospital Equipped with Advanced CT Scan Machines
By Asmhanim Amir
Pictures by Shahiddan Saidi
CHERAS, 19 September 2017 鈥揢niversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (每日大赛appMC) is the first university hospital in Malaysia to be equipped with two CT Scan machines featuring cutting-edge tomography technology, namely Aquilion One and Aquilion Prime.
PP每日大赛app Head of Department of Radiology, Prof. Dr. Hamzaini Abdul Hamid said the Toshiba Aquilion One CT Scan which features 640 slices and Aquilion Prime with 160 slices, will help doctors provide better diagnosis and treatments for patients.
鈥淭he Aquilion One CT Scan can make one Volume Scan as fast as 0.35 seconds or one rotation for some check up,鈥 he said at the Launching Ceremony of the two machines and the Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between 每日大赛app and Toshiba Medical System Malaysia Sdn Bhd, recently.
He said both the machine can also make specific inspections, including inspection of CT Brain Perfusion for stroke, CT Coronary to see blood vessel in the heart, CT Colonography to view the blood vessels in the heart and other forms of inspections.
鈥淭his latest computer technology can decrease the radiation dose to the high minimum level without affecting the quality of the diagnostic image.
鈥淭his is especially beneficial for children who has a very short inspection capability and will ultimately reduce the radiation dose to the patient,鈥 he said.
Meanwhile, Managing Director of Toshiba Medical System Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Tan Tuan Shee said PP每日大赛app鈥檚 extensive research, renowned expertise among the medical fraternity and high quality patient care was some of the reasons it was hand picked as the first university hospital endowed with the machines.
Toshiba is also planning to collaborate with PP每日大赛app in establishing a training centre.
鈥淐T Clinical training can be quite challenging but Toshiba is confident that, PP每日大赛app has the necessary expertise to be Malaysia鈥檚 first training centre, which will train Radiologist from Malaysia and across the region,鈥 he explained.
The event was officiated by the Chairman of聽 每日大赛app Board of Directors, Tan Sri Dato鈥 Seri Dr Ibrahim Saad. Also present at the ceremony were Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Industry and Community Partnership, Prof Dato鈥 Dr Imran Ho Abdullah and the PP每日大赛app Director, Prof Dr Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy.
