This installation underscores our commitment to providing patients access to the most advanced medical technology.
Maria D. Padin, MDDartmouth Health recently installed the state-of-the-art Siemens Somatom Pro.Pulse—an air-cooling, dual-energy, dual-source CT scanner—at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Nashua, making it only the second medical facility in the United States to offer this technology.
"This installation underscores our commitment to providing patients access to the most advanced medical technology," states Maria D. Padin, MD, chief medical officer for Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics’ southern New Hampshire locations. "By combining speed and precision, we enhance our ability to provide accurate diagnoses and inform effective treatment plans for our patients across multiple specialties."
The Pro.Pulse scanner offers numerous benefits, including shorter scan times, reduced radiation exposure, and increased diagnostic accuracy. This will allow Dartmouth Health’s diagnostic imaging team the ability to provide unparalleled imaging across various specialties, including:
- Oncology: complements Dartmouth Cancer Center services also offered at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester with precise imaging and tracking capabilities
- Rheumatology: specialized gout imaging
- Neurology: high-resolution neurological imaging
- GI and bariatrics: enhanced image quality
- Pediatrics: quicker scan time for young patients, which reduces radiation exposure and enables families to stay local, avoiding unnecessary travel for specialized imaging that requires anesthesia
To learn more about Pro.Pulse technology now available at Dartmouth Health, visit bit.ly/3Y4kgU8.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.