Shore Medical Center picks Toshiba’s Aquilion Prime CT

Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, N.J., has installed the Aquilion Prime 160 CT system from Toshiba America Medical Systems.

The Aquilion Prime 160 is an 80-detector row CT system that can generate 160 unique slices per rotation. It features AIDR 3D, which is Toshiba’s third-generation iterative dose reconstruction software, according to the Tustin, Calif.-based company. The scanner has a 78-cm gantry and 660 pound maximum table capacity.

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