Sentara Health recently transitioned the way it conducts certain CT scans across Virginia and North Carolina to reduce plastic waste.
Doctors use CT machines, or computerized tomography, to look for a variety of bodily abnormalities, such as tumors, bone fractures and coronary artery blockages.
“It’s basically a fancy X-ray. The difference is the CT scan spins the X-ray tube around your body and basically slices you like a loaf of bread,” said Diane Bruce, supervisor of the CT and MRI departments at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. “We can turn your anatomy up on its side and look at it slice by slice. A highly detailed image.”…