Innovation Enhances Low-Dose Imaging Procedures

Automated dose monitoring and optimization will help increase patient care by empowering clinicians to reduce and amend dose levels.

The DoseMap feature, available on the GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, United Kingdom) Innova IGS 5x0 platform, displays local cumulative patient dose levels all along the examination, and offers the operator the chance to change the local dose delivery by modifying the dose setting and/or gantry angulation when reaching given thresholds of a procedure. The expected benefits include helping the operator avoid potentially exceeding the local dose threshold, and assisting clinicians to better monitor dose levels.

Other solutions to lower dose levels offered by GE include ASiR, a lower dose image reconstruction technology enabler, which has been installed on more than 1,800 GE computerized tomography (CT) systems worldwide that has provided more than 20 million scans to date; Veo, a model-based iterative reconstruction that enables CT imaging under 1 millisievert with profound clarity; and CT Dose Check, a feature that helps users manage exposure prescan, through notifications and alerts to operators.

“Cardiovascular disease is a complex, whole-body disease managed at multiple levels in the healthcare continuum,” said Tom Gentile, president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s Healthcare Systems. “GE Healthcare can help our customers to ensure efficient, targeted, and connected cardiovascular care with integrated solutions. Our cardiovascular portfolio is designed to help clinicians and their cardiac patients focus on affordability, improved quality, and increased access around the world.”

Another dose reduction innovation available from GE is the exclusive Motion FREEdom with intelligent coronary motion correction, a platform that enables fast, high performance imaging with expanded capabilities for use in the emergency room (ER). The system represents a solution to virtually “freeze” coronary motion in higher heart rate coronary CT exams by the introduction of SnapShot Freeze, an intelligent motion correction feature that precisely determines actual vessel position and intelligently correct the effects of motion during cardiac CT exams.

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