GE installs first Discovery SPECT/CT

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has completed the first installations of its new cadmium zinc telluride-based SPECT/CT nuclear cardiology camera, Discovery NM/CT 570c.

The cameras were installed at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland.

The system is designed to perform a complete cardiac scan in less than five minutes of acquisition time, including myocardial perfusion imaging, attenuation correction, CT angiography, and calcium scoring.

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