The Montpellier University Hospital has inaugurated an
avant-garde interventional radiology intervention room in the Department of Interventional
Radiology at the St-Eloi Hospital. The Infinix-i 4D CT room from Toshiba
Medical, a Canon Group company, is the first in Europe to combine a new
generation angiography room, a 640 slice 4D CT scanner moving on a
sophisticated rail concept and a widescreen display. This room is the 11th
in the world (7 in Japan, 2 in Korea, 1 in the USA) integrating such advanced technology.
“We are extremely pleased with the new Infinix-i 4D CT system. It is a very flexible and user-friendly system with many intelligent tools for dose optimization”, said Prof. Boris Guiu, Head of the Department at St-Eloi Hospital. “With this new room we can carry out complex procedures of hepatic interventional radiology, which require all the existing guidance means, such as liver thermoablations. Each year we approximately take care of 1000 patients in this room in the best conditions of care, safety and comfort.”
“We are very proud to support the oldest faculty of
medicine in Europe with our newest interventional clinical concept”, said René Degros,
Business Unit Manager X-Ray at Toshiba Medical. “The groundbreaking new
Infinix-i 4D CT supports our customers in bridging the gap between the
interventional lab and CT with one seamlessly integrated solution for the
ultimate in patient care. Infinix-i 4D CT eliminates the need to transfer
patients back and forth between different rooms, while minimizing dose and
maintaining patient safety. In this way the system can help save valuable time
and gain efficiencies with the ability to plan, treat, and verify in the same
room, on a single system.”
Other similar concepts have also been chosen by two
other centers in France and will be installed soon, making CHU Montpellier the leader
in this field.
Source & Image Credit: Toshiba Medical
