Portable CT scanner added to neuro ICU

A portable CT scanner is the latest addition to technology available for patients with complex neurosurgical needs at Le Bonheur’s Neuroscience Institute. Based in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, the CereTom® eight-slice small bore portable CT scanner provides the highest quality scans without moving a patient across the hospital to the stationary CT scanner.

“A portable CT scanner allows us to roll up to the bedside, in the operating room, intensive care units and emergency department, and perform scans on patients too unstable to move to the radiology department,” said Frederick Boop, MD, co-director of the Neuroscience Institute and Semmes-Murphey neurosurgeon.

The CT scanner is a gift from the Herbert and Mary Shainberg Neuroscience Research Fund, which since 1996 has made significant investments in the Neuroscience Institute.