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University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1983 Page
Lawrence Memorial doctors get new diagnostic tool
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Renorter
In a room tucked away from the main corridor of Lawrence Memorial Hospital is a large, white, ominous building, the latest that technology may offer.
The 3,500 pound machine is a computerized tomographic scanner or CT scanner. It is similar to an X-ray machine, but it has the capability to do much more, said Jim Pine, director of the radiology department.
An ordinary X-ray machine, without the aid of special dyes, can show only hard matter such as bones. But this machine can produce pictures of soft materials.
The $1.1 million CT scanner, which the hospital received Monday, can be used to detect brain damage, cancer, tumors, neurological problems or spinal injuries, said Judith Hefley, director of community relations.
**WE CAN GET a cross-section view**
of something like a water-tier sliver in about two sections.
Pine said that having a CT scanner meant that patients did not have to go through painful exploratory surgery to have symptoms diagnosed.
The scanner, which was built by General Electric Corp., looks like a big, white, square Lifesaver — complete with a hole in the middle. Patients lie on a table that slides through the round hole in the scanner.
When a patient is under the CT scanner, technicians can see a cross-section of the patient's body on a television screen in 30 to 45 seconds.
Linda Lucas is a CT technician who works at the hospital.
"The CT scanner can detect what you do not see on a regular X-ray," she said. "It can pick up cancer in the very early stages, and until something is obviously wrong."
THE COMPUTER that runs the scanner can be programmed to find out other information about the body, Lucas said. The picture produced by the CT scanner is like a photograph on X-ray film.
"If you see a tumor, the doctor can ask. 'What is the volume?' Then we can ask the computer to figure it out," she said. "It will be compared to that of normal tissue."
Topeka has two or three CT scanners and several are also located in Kansas City. However, she said, Lawrence is the only sufficient demand for its own machine.
The scanner will also benefit patients from surrounding areas such as Euroland.
"It is difficult for our patients to travel the distances." Hefley said. "And it gives our physicians the capability of using that diagnostic tool.
"IT WILL COST about $208 a scan.
That's not so exorbitant."
Pine agreed, and said that the cost at Lawrence Memorial would be less than the $350 average cost for a CT scan in Kansas City area hospitals.
"It is at least a 30-minute trip either way and patients with IVs or using oxygen would have to go by ambulance," Pine said. "And the ambulance bill — I would hate to imagine what it would be."
Hefley said more than 2,100 patients might use the machine the first year. With so many patients needing the services of the machine, the CT scanner is becoming an essential part of the diagnosis procedure, she said.
"A LOT OF the new doctors have trained on these. They are used to having them for their diagnosis." Hefley said. And Lawrence Memorial has to keep up with the competition, she said.
CT scanners first entered the medical field in the early 1970s. Hefley said. However, like computers, they have limitations and are not enough for smaller hospitals to own.
The hospital also recently hired a new oncologist, a doctor who specializes in cancer treatment, she said. He will use the machine in his practice.
The hospital staff first requested the scanner two years ago, Hefley said. But wading through the paperwork and getting the delayed actually getting the machine.
Jim Adams, left, and Rick Meyer, both employees of General Electric Medical Systems, install the newly purchased $1.1 million computerized tomographic scanner in Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The patient lies on the table, which slides into the scanner that records a cross-section of the patient.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
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