From the October 2021 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


Siemens Healthineers
Siemens Healthineers has released a new premium single-source CT scanner. Called the SOMATOM X.ceed, the system is designed to speed up cardiac exams and emergency imaging with a rotation time of up to 0.25 seconds per rotation.

“In cardiac imaging, fast rotation is key,” said Sybille Feldmann, CT product manager at Siemens Healthineers. “You also need excellent temporal resolution. With the SOMATOM X.ceed, you can achieve high image quality at the lowest possible dose.”
The system features an intuitive workflow called myExam Companion, which guides users through diagnostic procedures, including patient breath holds and highlighting medical artifacts before they can impact an exam, Feldmann said. The feature was already offered on the company’s SOMATOM X.cite, and is available across the entire lines of X. and go. platform scanners.

In addition, the scanner adds a second companion feature, myNeedle Companion, which helps plan and guide percutaneous interventional procedures across modalities, including CT and angiography with a common user interface called SHUI, the Siemens Healthineers User Interface, and myNeedle Laser, which projects the needle entry point and insertion angle directly on a patient’s body, and is especially helpful for procedures with multiple needle paths.

“You have the confidence to precisely hit the target area,” Feldmann said.

A Skull Unfolding application is already FDA cleared.

“It unfolds and flattens the skull image for the physician to visualize brain and skull surfaces,” Feldmann said.

A Brain Hemorrhage application that displays alerts of detected bleeding to help distinguish between stroke types is 510(k) pending.

Another added feature is myExam Satellite, which provides a workstation that shares the data set with the scanner. All of these are designed to be helpful in emergency and trauma settings, since radiologists can read one case while the next patient is already being scanned to help with faster triage.

The scanner has an 82-centimeter bore and a 120 kW X-ray tube, to image larger patients with high image quality, and an iPad tablet user interface. It supports dual-energy spectral imaging.

United Imaging
The evolution of United Imaging's CT portfolio continued in 2020 and 2021 with new developments that the company says offer healthcare providers the opportunity to expand their practice.

The uCT ATLAS, which is specifically designed to maximize clinical flexibility, was cleared by the FDA in late summer 2021. Among other features, the ultra-wide 82-centimeter bore and 700-pound table weight capacity facilitates the comfortable scanning of large patients and is designed to excel in the trauma environment.

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