Expanding its medical facilities for the people of Chhattisgarh, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS-Raipur) has opened CT Scan services on Saturday.
The model is a Philips Ingenuity 128 slice CT scanner that can acquire 128 slices of any body part in a single rotation of the Xray tube. It is fully loaded application software for diagnosis of various diseases in the body parts, a statement of AIIMS informed.
Mrs B Prabhawati, the first patient to undergo CT Scan, was suffering from chronic rhinosinusitis and was referred by ENT department. The scan was triggered by the Director of AIIMS, Prof Dr Nitin M Nagarkar in the presence of the director of Radiation safety, Dr RM Chandola.
The medical superintendent, Dr Ajay Dani, Dean Dr SP Dhaneria, deputy director (admin) Neeresh Sharma, Prof Dr Neema, Prof Dr Alok Agrawal, Dr Neeraj Kaur and other faculty members of the institute were also present during the occasion.