Happenings

By Kristina Nunez • October 8, 2014

Drs. McCollough and Flohr in front of PCCT scanner

Photon counting CT Scanner makes research debut 

The arrival of a new CT scanner at Mayo Clinic is not usually worthy of a ribbon cutting ceremony, but this isn't your ordinary scanner. Destined solely for research, the first photon-counting-detector-based spectral CT  to be put into service anywhere was recently delivered to Mayo's Radiology Research Division and placed in the Opus Building, Mayo's animal imaging facility.