Philips Brilliance Overview. The 64 Slice Philips Brilliance CT Scanner is built on innovative Essence technology that delivers image quality, dose efficiency and rapid reconstruction times. The Brilliance CT 64 channel configuration package embodies completely the philosophies of sense and simplicity applied to more effective patient care.
However, those who adopted 256- or 320-slice systems say the quality of the images are superior and lead to better diagnoses in CT angiography (CTA). System users say 64-slice scanner costs a little more than $1 million, while a 256-slice scanner runs about $2 million, and a 320-slice system costs about $2.5 million.
The term slice refers to the number of rows of detectors in the z-axis of a CT. For example, in an 8-slice CT, there are eight slices of data captured for each rotation of the gantry. The first CT scanners offered single slice CT (SSCT) images but now there are multiple-slice CT scanners (MSCT.) The limitation with using a SSCT was that the
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