Delray Medical Center unveils high-tech scanners

Helping to officially open high-tech scanners at Delray Medical Center's Outpatient Diagnostic Center were Bill Wood, president of the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce, Delray Medical CEO Robert Krieger, Delray Mayor Woodie McDuffie, Delray Medical Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Welch and Theresa Grifith, director of radiology at Delray Medical.

DELRAY BEACH — Delray Medical’s Outpatient Diagnostic and Women’s Center showed off its latest and greatest imaging devices Thursday evening at a champagne reception featuring city officials and representatives of the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce.

The devices, a 64-slice CT scanner and a new MRI scanner, provide doctors with faster, higher resolution images. The CT scanner, for example, can take a picture of any body part as thin as one-sixth of a millimeter, according to C.J. Grub, CT/MRI supervisor at the center.

For patients, the openings are larger, making them more comfortable and less claustrophobic.
The CT scanner has been “live” since September; the MRI about a month, according to Grub. Total cost for the two devices: about $2.85 million.

Along with installing the two devices, the hospital remodeled the outpatient diagnostic center, which is located in the Palm Court Plaza along Linton Boulevard on the Delray Medical campus.

On hand for the event: Delray Beach Mayor Woodie McDuffie; city commissioners Adam Frankel and Gary Eliopoulos; Delray Beach Chamber President Bill Wood; Delray Medical Center CEO Robert Krieger and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Welch.

A bigger opening for patients and the ability to make finer images are two of the advantages this 64-slice CT scanner offers. Posing with the machine, from left: Norman Godfrey, imaging OPS manager; Theresa Grifith, director of radiology; Delray Medical CEO Robert Kreiger and Delray Medical Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey M. Welch.