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Tuesday, Sep 27, 2005
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New Products & Services EKO launches fusion imaging facility in Kolkata Our Bureau
Kolkata , Sept. 26 THE city-based EKO X-Ray & Imaging Institute has launched eastern India's first Fusion Imaging and Infection Imaging Centre, as part of the Nuclear Medicine department, on the occasion of EKO's silver jubilee celebrations. The new facility has been set up at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore, and is already operational. Fusion Imaging involves hardware and software fusion of anatomical images, like CT or MRI with functional images like nuclear imaging, and the information so received is pivotal for cancer imaging, orthopaedics, bone & joint disorders, brain imaging and cardiac imaging. EKO is at present a recognised teaching institute for DNB Radio diagnosis, under the National Board of Examinations, and is engaged in scientific research. The institute also has a joint venture with the West Bengal Government to provide diagnostic facilities at affordable rates to the financially weaker sections of society. Dr S.K. Sharma, Director of EKO-XRay & Imaging, told Business Line that the institute's Department of Nuclear Medicine has now installed a Dual Head High End Gamma Camemra with Fusion Imaging System, counted among the few in India, in Mumbai and Chennai, and the only in Eastern India. Commenting on the new equipment, he said, "no single modality can provide information on both, the structural and functional elements and eliminate the requirement for multiple investigation-making healthcare less expensive." Dr Sharma said while conventional modes of imaging modalities such as X-Ray, USG, CT and MRI provide information pertaining only to the structure of the organs, nuclear imaging provides the vital functional know-how. Data collected through CT or MRI are fused with the functional data obtained by the Gamma camera which provides comprehensive and incremental information regarding clinical disorder, improving manifold the accuracy in detection of the disease, he added. Earlier, addressing a press conference, he announced the introduction of the Dr S.K. Sharma Oration award to commemorate the completion of 25 years of the institute. The award is meant to felicitate eminent achievers in the field of medical, and the inaugural one has been conferred on Dr Kakarla Subbarao, radiologist and Director and Vice Chancellor of the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.
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