Mobile CT

By John Picard, FACHE, MPA, BSHA, RT(R)

On August 8, 2007, a mobile CT scanner located in the Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC) emergency room parking lot scanned its first patient. The scanner, a GE 16-detector Lightspeed from Mobile Interim Solutions, has since scanned over 450 patients within its first 30 days of operation.

The mobile scanner was brought in to provide supplemental outpatient-only scanning capacity while the Hospital replaces the CT Room 2 scanner with a 64-detector scanner. This replacement project will take approximately 15 weeks with an end date of mid-December 2007. The scanner is run by a registered technologist, registered nurse, and a dedicated technologist assistant. The hours of operation are 8 AM to 8 PM, Monday through Friday.

For more information, please contact John Picard, SHC radiology clinical director, at
(650) 725-6342.

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