GE deploys 500th Hawkeye

GE Healthcare has installed its Hawkeye hybrid imaging system at the Primary Children's Medical Center of Salt Lake City, Utah. It's the 500th installation of the Hawkeye to date.

GE's hybrid system combines the functional information of a nuclear medicine exam - single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) - with the anatomical information from a computed tomography (CT) system. The technology is available on GE's Infinia system.

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