MiniCATTM:  All good things

should be this easy.

Allergists: Improve diagnosis of your patients during exams with Xoran's MiniCATTM -- an easy to use, point-of-care, sinus and ear CT scanner.

MiniCAT™ is a compact, upright CT scanner specifically designed for in-office use by physicians. It creates high resolution, ultra-thin CT slices (0.3 mm for temporal bones), making it ideal for scanning the temporal bones, skull base, and sinuses.

MiniCAT™ is easy to install (its small footprint fits through standard door frames, weighs less than 450 lbs., and plugs into a standard electrical outlet).

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It is also very easy to use (you operate the scanner using a Windows PC with user-friendly software). The scan takes only 40 seconds, and you get an immediate, digitally versatile CT image on your computer monitor.

MiniCAT™ has a lower radiation dose than conventional (full-body) CT***, and affords your patients the comfort of sitting upright in an open design, minimizing claustrophobia. The unique upright design allows you to get true coronal images without subjecting your patients to the discomfort of hyperextension of the neck.

Data can be saved on a CD, DVD, or file server, and it is easy to print images and customized reports. MiniCAT™ features industry standard DICOM network capabilities, and makes it simple to transmit images for teleradiology services.

MiniCAT™ gives you the ability to diagnose and treat your patients faster and more conveniently. You save valuable time and scanning revenue by eliminating the need to outsource your CT scans. With MiniCAT™, you control the timing and quality of your scans, and you keep scanning fees in your practice.

***In calculating the effective dose, we closely followed the methodology suggested in ICRP 60 and Frederiksen et al. Twenty thermo-luminescent dosimeters (TLD) were placed in selected sites representing radio-sensitive tissues and organs in an anthropomorphic head phantom.2,3 The TLDs measured the absorbed dose to the thyroid, salivary gland, bone mar row, skin, and brain. The salivary gland was included in the ef fective dose calculations according to Frederiksen’s adaptation of the
ICRP method3. The effective dose was calculated as the sum of the equivalent doses to each organ multiplied by that organ’s weighting factor.2,3 TLD measurements were not made for the 20 and 10 second scans. The values for these scans were approximated by linearly scaling the dose from the 40 second scan with the number of x-ray pulses used in each protocol.

1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health. “What are the Radiation Risks from CT?” http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ct/risks.html

2. Publication 60 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) “Radiation Protection. 1990 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection,”
Pergamon Press, Oxford 1990

3. N.L. Frederiksen, B.W. Benson, and T.W. Sokolowski, “Effective dose and risk assessment from computed tomography of the maxillofacial complex,” Dentomaxillofacial Radiology,
vol. 24, pp. 55-58, 1995

4. J. Alspaugh, E. Christodoulou, M. Goodsitt, J. Stayman, “Dose and Image Quality of Flat-Panel Detector Volume Computed Tomography for Sinus Imaging,” Medical Physics, vol. 34, pp. 26-34, 2007

5. http://xorantech.com/contentHTML/miniCAT_effective_dose.php