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AGE MANAGEMENT EVALUATION & DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
Section One:
Electro Beam Computer Tomography (EBT)
Section Two: Diagnostic Blood Panels & Kronos Science Test Panels
Section Three: Body Composition Analysis
Section Four: Health and Fitness Assessment
Section Five: Comprehensive Blood Panels
Section Six: Secure Order Form For Bloodwork and Diagnostic Testing

Electron Beam Computer Tomography (EBT)


Electron Beam Computer Tomography (EBT) is a groundbreaking scanning technology for diagnosing and evaluating the presence of coronary artery heart disease and diseases of the lung. The EBCT Scanner is able to capture scans up to 10 times faster than any other technology available today.

Fast scans are essential when the object of the scan is a beating heart. Whereas other scanners produce images of the heart that are blurry and unclear. These clear, sharp images are critical to the effective diagnosis and evaluation of the patient's heart by a physician.

Patients seen at the center will be referred to a nearby state of the art Imatron EBCT scanner (3 minute drive from our office) 21st Century depending on patient's medical, family or Social history and laboratory analysis results.


Electron Beam Computer Tomography and Coronary Artery Scanning
Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. In this year alone, 1.5 million Americans will suffer a heart attack and about 500,000 will die.

Often referred to as "the silent killer", coronary artery disease typically remains undetected in many individuals until a major cardiac event occurs. Therefore, it is important that there be a diagnostic test that can identify individuals who exhibit coronary atherosclerosis even in the sub-clinical stage.

Numerous studies have reported that coronary artery calcium is a marker for atherosclerosis, recognized as the leading cause of coronary artery disease. Studies have also shown that Coronary Artery Scanning (CAS) by Ultrafast CT® is superior to conventional risk factor analysis in the detection of sub-clinical coronary artery disease while predicting future cardiac events. Studies have also reported the volume of coronary artery calcification is proportional to the total volume of atherosclerotic plaque including; those lipid rich and fibrotic plaques not containing calcium, concluding that the 96% sensitivity of CAS by Ultrafast CT® make it the modality of choice when scanning for coronary artery calcification.

CAS is a non-invasive imaging technique that consists of 30-40 ECG triggered contiguous scans taken in a single breath hold. ECG triggering initiates a 100 millisecond sweep of the electron beam on a single target ring generating the x-ray exposure. The patient then rapidly moves to the next slice position to be ready for a trigger within the next cardiac cycle.

Ultrafast CT® has significant advantages over helical or spiral CT scanning in the detection of coronary artery calcification. High spatial and temporal resolution, scanning speed and ECG triggering provide sharp images that allow the diagnostician to detect minute amounts of calcified plaque in the coronary arteries.

Calcium quantification software enables the operator to quantify the total amount of coronary artery calcification based on its density and area using the Agatston algorithm. Current research suggests that coronary artery calcification quantification is an excellent indicator for disease progression. Therefore, CAS by Ultrafast CT® has become an important tool in the monitoring of patients undergoing lipid-lowering therapies.

Coronary Artery Scanning(CAS) for calcification by Ultrafast CT® is the most sensitive noninvasive method currently available to accurately detect the presence and extent of early coronary artery disease.

The Imatron Electron Beam Tomography (EBT) Scanner


Example Of Electronic Beam Imaging

The Imatron Electron Beam Tomography (EBT) Scanner combines advanced science and technology to create a truly innovative diagnostic imaging system. Imatron's patented EBT Technology and unique system architecture, offer diagnosticians scan times as fast as 50 and 100 milliseconds. In addition to imaging of all body organs, EBT scan speeds allow diagnosticians to image the beating heart, evaluate physiologic and blood flow analysis, and to perform other tomographic examinations where scan speed is essential.

Utilizing proprietary EBT technology, a powerful beam is generated and then focused onto one of four tungsten target rings positioned beneath the patient. Each 210 degree sweep of the electron beam produces a continuos 30 degree fan beam of x-rays that pass through the patient to a stationary array of detectors which, in turn, generate the tomographic data needed to produce cross-sectional anatomical images.

The Imatron EBT provides two distinct scanning modes; MultiSlice mode and Single Slice mode scanning. These two scanning modes, with scan times of 50 to 100 milliseconds provide the diagnostician the imaging versatility necessary to obtain high quality anatomical images.

Electron Beam Imaging - In MultiSlice mode scanning, the electron beam sweeps along one tofour target rings in rapid succession covering up to 8 centimeters of the body without moving the patient. This unique functionality along with real time ECG triggering provides cine and flow capabilities. This very fast scanning speed and temporal resolution is ideal for evaluating ventricular function, joint motion, airway physiology and blood flow analysis. The exceptional scan speed positions the EBT scanner to be the modality of choice when imaging cardiac, pediatric, trauma and geriatric patients where speed of acquisition is critical.

Single Slice mode scanning utilizes 100 millisecond sweeps along one of the four target rings. This mode provides two distinct acquisition features; Continuos Volume Scanning (CVS) and Step Volume Scanning (SVS). CVs mode provides a volumetric acquisition that can be reconstructed in seamless 3-D images. In CVs mode data is acquired by moving the patient continuously through the x-ray beam path. In SVS mode timed scans are acquired while the patient moves incrementally through the scanner. In SVS mode diagnosticians can utilize real time ECG triggering to provide a volume acquisition of the heart at a prescribed phase of the cardiac cycle. The ability to ECG trigger the scanner at high heart rates, without skipping a beat, provides extremely temporal resolution and high patient compliance without exposure to unnecessary dose.


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