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Children's National Medical Center is the First in the Region with a Portable CT Scanner

Washington (Vocus) June 10, 2009 -- Imaging of critically ill children can now be done with minimal disruption and risk at Children's National Medical Center. Sara and Mark Reges and Karen and Tom Morgan, of Potomac, Maryland, partnered with Children's National to make imaging safer in the pediatric intensive care unit and to make real-timing imaging possible during surgery.

The new CT scanner, called a CereTom®, is one of only a handful in use in pediatric hospitals around the country, and is one of only a handful in use in any hospital in the mid-Atlantic region.

The families dedicated the first portable computerized tomography (CT) scanner in the Washington, DC area on Friday, June 5. Both families have sons who were treated for traumatic brain injuries (TBI) at Children's National. Both children have now have recovered fully.

"One of the most frightening things while our child was in the hospital was moving him in and out of his room and down two floors for a CT scan," said Sara Reges. "I am a nurse myself and saw the need to make it possible to do high-quality imaging with minimal movement of the patient."

The portable CT scanner delivers high re
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