GE Healthcare Says CT Scan Has Clearer Images, Cuts Radiation

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--High-Definition (HD) technology is coming into every facet of our lives. It’s used in the electronics in our homes, the radios in our cars and may be coming soon to the health care providers we depend on. At a media conference at the 2007 meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric (NYSE: GE), showcased its recent technical and clinical advances from a portfolio of groundbreaking CT technologies that GE intends to incorporate into its next generation of computed tomography (CT) scanners. GE announced these advances under the umbrella of “HDCT technologies” – given their potential to revolutionize what clinicians may see with HDCT images, similar to the quantum leap in image clarity that HD video provides.

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