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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | October 04, 2021
From the October 2021 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The lower-dose, high-resolution system is portable, with a low upfront cost and cost of ownership.
The system is designed for orthopedic practices and there have also been studies on using it for lung scans to detect COVID-19 and lung nodules, with results being presented at the upcoming RSNA annual meeting.
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Philips
In March, at ECR 2021, Philips introduced its Precise Suite, its AI-enabled solution that facilitates a more streamlined workflow, better image quality and dose reduction.
The software, currently available on the company’s Incisive CT scanner, is designed to reduce the variability of imaging among users, help reduce dose and speed up exam times, said Frans Venker, senior vice president and global business leader for CT/AMI at Philips.
One of the elements of Precise Suite, Precise Cardiac, was introduced on the new Spectral CT 7500, which came out earlier this year. Precise Cardiac is an AI-enabled smart algorithm to improve image quality by reducing motion artifacts impacting the coronary arteries. Spectral CT 7500 provides the user with more information, through its spectral/dual energy capabilities, to make a confident diagnosis, Venker said.
“With this scanner, our customers have seen a reduction in follow-up scans and an increase in diagnostic confidence,” Venker said.
The spectral detector is designed for hospitals trying to improve their diagnostic confidence on a wide variety of examinations, as it provides the spectral information on all scans. The scanner also has advanced cardiac imaging capabilities.
“You can analyze what a lesion is with a 23% increase in diagnostic confidence, providing reliability with decreased cost of care,” Venker said.
Planmed
Over the past year, Planmed updated the field of view on its Verity scanner to allow for horizontal stitching. While the device utilizes stitching instead of being able to image the entire foot on one scan, the previous stitching was only vertical, said Johan Moed, Planmed’s national sales manager.
The company also entered into a joint venture with software company Disior to exclusively distribute their software that provides automated segmenting and analysis for weight-bearing CT for the foot and ankle, knee, hand and wrist, and head and neck.
Unlike competitor Curvebeam’s CubeView Autometrics, being developed using machine learning, Disior uses the finite element method.
“It does actual segmentation directly in the slice data,” Moed said.
Software using artificial intelligence, needs tens of thousands of scans to train the algorithm, which Moed said “takes years of development and patient consent forms.”
