We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. To learn more, click here. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies. Cookie Policy.

Features Partner Sites Information LinkXpress
Sign In
Advertise with Us
GLOBETECH PUBLISHING LLC

Siemens Healthineers

Provides customized electronic systems and advanced imaging, diagnostics, therapy, and healthcare IT solutions for th... read more Featured Products: More products

Download Mobile App




Novel Angiography Systems Expand Precision Medicine Capabilities

By MedImaging International staff writers
Posted on 30 Sep 2019
Print article
Image: The ARTIS icono biplane system (Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers).
Image: The ARTIS icono biplane system (Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers).
New angiography systems permit a wide range of procedures to be performed in a single suite, improving interventional lab utilization and interdisciplinary usage.

The Siemens Healthineers (Erlangen, Germany) family of Artis icono angiography systems includes the ARTIS icono biplane system, which has been engineered for optimal utilization in neuroradiology and abdominal imaging, and the ARTIS icono floor single-plane system for vascular, interventional cardiology, surgical, and oncology procedures. At its core, the ARTIS icono platform delivers the new OPTIQ image chain, which fundamentally redesigns image processing for 2D imaging.

OPTIQ increases image quality across a wide range of C-arm angles and patient weights, regulating acquisition parameters to automatically achieve optimal image contrast at patient radiation doses that conform to the As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) guiding principal for radiation safety. ARTIS icono also improves the Siemens Healthineers roadmap function, which creates subtracted angiography images for easier navigation of the patient’s vascular system during subsequent fluoroscopy, allowing dose reduction.

Stroke treatment and other neuro procedures benefit from new features of the ARTIS icono biplane, including syngo DynaCT Sine Spin, which provides images with fewer cone beam CT artifacts in the basal part of the brain and close to the skull; syngo DynaCT Multiphase, which produces time-resolved cone beam CT volumes; and syngo DynaCT High Speed, which can substantially shorten low-contrast 3D imaging from 20 seconds to eight, delivering CT-like images that are less susceptible to movement artifacts. A Twin Spin feature enables clinicians to seamlessly switch between 2D biplanar imaging and 3D imaging, accelerating workflow and simplifying 3D imaging for intra-procedural progress checks.

The ARTIS icono floor is a multi-axis floor system created for a wide range of disciplines, particularly vascular, interventional cardiology, surgical, and interventional oncology. It provides coverage of patients up to 203 cm without repositioning, as well as lateral coverage of 190 cm, ideal for radial access. Thanks to an additional axis, ARTIS icono floor can achieve virtually the same angles as a ceiling-mounted system and free space for anesthesia carts, echocardiography systems, and patient monitors, without the cost of a ceiling-mounted unit.

“The ARTIS icono family of angiography systems will have nothing short of a revolutionary impact on our customers and on the delivery of healthcare in general, by setting new standards for image quality and optimized workflow in minimally invasive procedures,” said Lara Barghout, senior vice president and head of advanced therapies at Siemens Healthineers North America. “And as more hospitals introduce comprehensive stroke services to treat more patients who are eligible for thrombectomies, the ARTIS icono biplane raises the bar in consistent 3D image quality for whole-brain imaging.”

Gold Member
Solid State Kv/Dose Multi-Sensor
AGMS-DM+
Laptop Ultrasound Scanner
PL-3018
Compact C-Arm with FPD
Arcovis DRF-C R21
New
Color Doppler Ultrasound System
DRE Crystal 4PX

Print article

Channels

Radiography

view channel
:	Image: The AI model could be a valuable adjunct to human radiologists in breast cancer diagnoses and risk prediction (Photo courtesy of 123RF)

AI Model Predicts 5-Year Breast Cancer Risk from Mammograms

Approximately 13% of U.S. women, or one in every eight, are predicted to develop invasive breast cancer over their lifetime, with 1 in 39 women (3%) succumbing to the illness, according to the American... Read more

Nuclear Medicine

view channel
Image: The AI system uses scintigraphy imaging for early diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis (Photo courtesy of 123RF)

AI System Automatically and Reliably Detects Cardiac Amyloidosis Using Scintigraphy Imaging

Cardiac amyloidosis, a condition characterized by the buildup of abnormal protein deposits (amyloids) in the heart muscle, severely affects heart function and can lead to heart failure or death without... Read more

Imaging IT

view channel
Image: The new Medical Imaging Suite makes healthcare imaging data more accessible, interoperable and useful (Photo courtesy of Google Cloud)

New Google Cloud Medical Imaging Suite Makes Imaging Healthcare Data More Accessible

Medical imaging is a critical tool used to diagnose patients, and there are billions of medical images scanned globally each year. Imaging data accounts for about 90% of all healthcare data1 and, until... Read more

Industry News

view channel
Image: Samsung Medison CEO Mr. Yongkwan Kim and Bracco Imaging CEO Dr. Fulvio Renoldi Bracco endorsed a MoU agreement (Photo courtesy of Bracco Group)

Samsung and Bracco Enter Into New Diagnostic Ultrasound Technology Agreement

Samsung Medison (Seoul, South Korea) and Bracco Imaging (Milan, Italy) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to pioneer a new area for diagnostic ultrasound devices and contrast agents.... Read more
Copyright © 2000-2024 Globetech Media. All rights reserved.