Hospital installs new state-of-the-art equipment

Students aren't the only ones getting new equipment this fall. Northern Montana Hospital is updating their imaging, with a new computed tomography scanner this month and a new magnetic resonance imaging machine next month.

The CT scanner was wheeled into the hospital this week to replace the old machine that has been used for nine years.

"It's a new state-of-the-art scanner," Steven Liston, a radiologist from Northern Montana Hospital said. "It's faster, which means less repeat scans."

It's faster because it has got 10 times the sensors.

"We could scan a whole body in five seconds," Liston sai...