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The center is located in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) East Campus in the Charlestown Navy Yard, 149 13th St. Charlestown, MA 02129. Separately, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is home to its own Martinos Imaging Center.
The MGH Gordon Center also operates the PET Core, an MGH research service facility that synthesizes radiotracers and provides positron emission tomography imaging services for investigators. [ 2 ] Created in 2015 with an endowment from the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Foundation, [ 3 ] the Gordon Center is a direct continuation of MGH's Division ...
The hospital accepted its first patient on April 14, 1956. Since then, the hospital has undergone several renovations and expansions. In 1964, it was expanded to include 13 additional patient rooms, a second x-ray room, a new recovery room, a second nurse's station and communication system, an enlarged medical records room and a cafeteria bar in the dining room, solarium, examination room ...
The first (ultra-low-dose backscatter X-ray) full body security scanner was developed by Dr. Steven W Smith, [5] [6] who developed the Secure 1000 whole body scanner in 1992. He subsequently sold the device and associated patents to Rapiscan Systems , who now manufacture and distribute the device.
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Mercy is a Level 2 Trauma Center. The last year data were made available, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center had 16,359 admissions, 2,186 inpatient procedures, 3,973 outpatient surgeries, and its emergency department had 52,692 visits. [1]
A millimeter wave scanner is a whole-body imaging device used for detecting objects concealed underneath a person’s clothing using a form of electromagnetic radiation. Typical uses for this technology include detection of items for commercial loss prevention , smuggling , and screening for weapons at government buildings and airport security ...
Photo of a CT scanner. The gantry of a computed tomography scanner (CT) is a ring or cylinder, into which a patient is placed. The x-ray tube and x-ray detector spin rapidly in the gantry, as the patient is moved in and out of the gantry. The CT scanner produces 3-dimensional x-ray images of the patient.