Article

2003-03-11 Britain

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-11 10:44 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Aren't they large devices? How large (size, weight) would the smallest CT be?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-11 19:04:21|| 2003-03-11 19:04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't handle them, but I order CT scans as part of my work (I'm a lung doc). The scannners I've seen aren't necessarily built for portability. The X-ray beam device, table, motors, collimators, etc., are the size of a pick-up truck in aggregate. Then you have the computer system, generally a mini-computer of some kind (e.g., Silicon Graphics size built by GE or Siemens). And you need a power source. So I'm guessing that you'd need a semi-truck and trailer to haul the whole thing around. If the military threw money at the solution, you might be able to make a number of the components a lot smaller and lighter.

There's also the sturdiness factor to consider, though I would think the military has that figured out.

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-11 20:58:59|| 2003-03-11 20:58:59|| Front Page Top

#3 To Doc Steve - Doc, I live in a small rural town in Colorado of only 900 people. We have a local hospital only by sheerest luck (a local cattle baron dropped dead and left a fund for building and maintaining one). We don't have a CT scanner.

But we DO get the use of one on a bi-weekly basis.
The state of Colorado has a portable CT scanner that makes the rounds of the rural areas on a regular basis. So I can tell you _exactly_ how large it is. And you were pretty close. The scanner and auxillary gear fill up one semi-trailer, and require two small 'expand-o-rooms' that are unfolded when it's parked.

Hope that's useful info.

Ed Becerra

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-03-11 23:44:56|| 2003-03-11 23:44:56|| Front Page Top

14:51 Russell
08:34 liberalhawk
08:12 raptor
07:23 raptor
04:04 bernardz
02:44 Bulldog
00:55 R. McLeod
00:46 Anonymous
00:39 R. McLeod
00:35 R. McLeod
23:44 Ed Becerra
23:12 cdw
22:46 Drew
22:41 Dar Steckelberg
22:37 mojo
22:29 Drew
22:13 jon lemming
22:05 Anonymous
22:01 Anonymous
21:57 Chuck
21:52 Anonymous
21:50 Chuck
21:49 Chuck
21:48 Anonymous