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Show Hospital to unveil new CT scanner in open house I American Fork Hospital's new CT Scanner will be unveiled for the public at an open house tour on Wednesday, Nov. 13. The tour will be part of the hospitals four-year anniversary observance, officials say, and visitors will be able to see the new ""it anytime between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. What is a CT Scanner? Dr. Harvey Hatch, hospital radiologist, will present a lecture aWut the unit and "what it can do for you" at 7 p.m. that evening to more familiarize residents with the scanner and it's uses. Dr. Hatch and Tom Marshall, X-ray X-ray department manager, explain C-T C-T stands for Computerized Tomography - and say the unit is used to better diagnose diseases of the brain, abdomen, back and chest. They said the unit uses a computer to reconstruct what the area in question actually looks like, allowing the physician to see if there is an abnormality or not. "It is a primary diagnostic tool and is less invasive than other types of x-ray," Mr. Marshall said. He said contrast medium is not always needed to obtain the picture, and the X-ray technician can program it to view a wide area or a specific area of the body. The patient lies on a table, similar to a regular x-ray table, and is positioned into the center of what appears as a large doughnut. The technician then programs the C-T Scanner for Ihe density he wants to see. -i . ' -ji ' ( JJ- 1 I I 7 I ' I . r-r 1 I r , i i ray H " nw- -"-K i S " ' " - ' ' -" . . ' . "v ! .. . ,, , i I u. iJ . ... piprtion Tuesday. Judges u, !y ' . pip3S.ant Grove election Tuesday. Judges J .arlu and Elsie Nielsen prepare to vote m the Pleasant oro ? (tro back) are Donna Brock, Ida Mae Christiansen and Lou.se N.elsen. |