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Physicians watched the monitor as patient Linda Kossin had her heart scanned at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Several Boston-area hospitals have purchased the ultrafast scanners.

New CT scanners offer faster diagnoses

Hospitals betting on costly devices

By Liz Kowalczyk
Globe Staff / April 30, 2006

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Hospitals are buying up new super-fast CT scanners, betting that these expensive machines will change dramatically how doctors diagnose chest pains and ultimately heart disease. (Full article: 1443 words)

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