With the installation of China’s first SOMATOM Force open source CT in Baotou Central Hospital on July 12, numerous reports have sprung up in front of people’s eyes. As a citizen, the main concern is what kind of examinations can be done with this world’s most advanced CT equipment? What is it bringing to the people? Sun Kai, Radiology Department, Baotou Central Hospital Compared with traditional CT, FORCE CT has the following three significant advantages: “fast, low, accurate”. “Fast”: i.e. fast scanning speed, scanning the heart only takes 0.13 seconds, which is twice as fast as the previous Flash dual-source CT of 0.25 seconds, far surpassing the scanning speed of 8-10 seconds of 64-row CT, and heart imaging is completely unaffected by breathing and heart rate. “Low”: i.e. low radiation dose and low contrast agent dosage, only 0.06mSv for a lung CT scan, which is lower than the dosage of one chest X-ray and can be used for screening of healthy people for physical examination; only 15ml of contrast agent is needed for a coronary CT scan, which is four times less than the dosage of conventional coronary examination. “Accurate”: that is, the image quality is clear, and through CT fusion technology, functional imaging is combined with morphological diagnosis to determine the blood supply of tumors, with PET-CT-like functions, making the diagnosis more accurate. FORCE CT has brought many blessings to our people in Baotou for their health checkups. First of all, you can receive the cheapest and best quality CT examination without going to big cities; secondly, patients with poor physical conditions such as arrhythmia, difficulty in holding breath, and poor kidney function can easily receive the examination and get perfect image images. Lastly, it eliminates the worries of the patients and their families about the excessive radiation dose that may cause health hazards. In addition, we have set up callers and wide chairs in the waiting lobby to make the waiting area more comfortable for patients and their families, and arranged medical guides in the imaging center to provide patients with more humane services as much as possible. In addition to its powerful functions and low dose radiation for early screening of cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors in various areas, the relatively low cost is also within the acceptable range. At present, the downtown hospital to do a Force CT heart examination less than 2,000 yuan, ordinary head CT flat scan only 300 yuan, outpatient medical insurance card card directly reimbursed 50%, greatly reducing the economic burden of the people to see a doctor. “High-end equipment, low price, accurate diagnosis”, this is the gospel brought to the people by Force Open Source CT of Baotou Central Hospital. By Wu Chao, CT Department, Baotou Central Hospital 2015-07-21