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Dr. Nielsen s capabilities and the advanced technology of the CT scanner fully available to our physicians and patients,” said William A. Gravely, president of CMH.

Under Dr. Nielsen’s leadership Culpeper Memorial Hospital recently acquired a new ultrasound system, replaced a tomography room, and it is in the process of adding a new radiographic-fluoroscopic room that will give the Hospital the capability of accomplishing angiographic exams. This past year the Hospital initiated MR I services on a weekly basis.

CMH has had a mobile CT scanner for several years. It has been available only on a limited basis, however, which is the major reason Dr. Nielsen, after taking over the department, established as his first priority the acquisition of a hospitalbased unit. When the scanner is put into use in late spring, CT technology will be available to patients and physicians on a full-time basis.

Considered to be one of the most important breakthroughs in diagnostic medicine in the 20th century, CT has since its introduction in the mid

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