In September, Florida’s West Kendall Baptist Hospital got a very cool (and very important) new tool: The very first
An image of the abdomen and the aorta.
“The advanced design definitely makes for a less intimidating, more comfortable patient experience, while yielding amazingly accurate and detailed images,” says the CEO of West Kendall, the Revolution’s first test hospital. On the tail of their study of the machine, West Kendall and GE have released some of the images it produced, ranging from an ankle to a heart to the actual structure of blood vessels inside the brain. It’s hard to reconcile the fact that these scans look more like 3D animations from a medical show than real, honest-to-god images generated from human bodies. Check ’em out. [GE]
An image of the human heart with stents typically used to treat narrow or weak arteries.
A foot reinforced with screws.
The Circle of Willis, which represents the blood flow through the brain.