New Parkway Hospital Has Toshiba CT Scanner

Lifestyles, habits, stress levels and family history all contribute to heart disease. Smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes and lack of physical activity add to these risk factors.

For patients that may be at risk for heart disease, early detection and diagnosis is the best way to stop or slow the progression of the disease.

The 64-Slice Toshiba CT Scanner is considered the most advanced diagnostic tool available for early detection of cardiac disease. It is non-invasive and covered by most insurances for those patients who have risk factors for heart disease. The New Parkway Hospital has the only such scanner in the borough of Queens.

The Aquilion 64 is a 64-slice CT scanner built on Toshiba's unique 64-row Quantum Detector, volumetric imaging capabilities and advanced software applications, and is the world's only true volumetric 64-slice CT scanner with 64 detector channels, 3-D cone beam algorithms and volume reconstruction. Its superior design produces highspeed, high-resolution imaging with low-contrast resolution that's unsurpassed at the lowest dose.

The Quantum Detector enables the acquisition of 64 simultaneous slices of 0.5mm- the thinnest available, with each 350-millisecond gantry revolution.

The result is precise 350 micron isotropic imaging of any region of the body during a breath-hold under 10 seconds. For more information about the Aquilion 64-Slice CT at the New Parkway Hospital, call (718) 990-4141.