When success is measured in the number of lives that are being saved, terms like innovation and quality take on a different meaning. For example, Varian Medical Systems' new high-power CT scanning tube, which is capable of performing at almost twice the sustained output of any other tube in the medical imaging industry, makes possible improved images in the next generation of half-second CT scanning. This allows for better care and helps to raise hope all over the world for millions of patients who will benefit from the innovation.

At Varian Medical Systems, pursuing excellence means helping our customers to achieve better patient outcomes, increase patient throughput, and reduce treatment costs. Tubes made by VMS X-Ray Products are now used in nearly one-half of the mammography systems and in nearly one-fourth of the CT scanners worldwide, accounting for more than 2.2 billion diagnostic medical exposures a year.

X-Ray Products' Chris Artig and Debi Salmon (pictured above) together with Gary Virshup of Varian's Ginzton Technology Center, have teamed with others to develop Quantum Series CT tubes. These environmentally friendly new products use a unique integral housing that increases performance, reduces component count and weight, and eliminates difficult-to-recycle dielectric oil, lead, and beryllium.