At the ongoing annual meeting of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Philips has introduced its Precedence 64-slice SPECT/CT. Described by the company as the world’s only “hybrid-imaging system that delivers comprehensive cardiac management on a single imaging platform,” the device now features new data software that integrates images from exams of all key cardiology subspecialties.
More about the system and the Philips Xcelera R2.1 information solution:
The Precedence SPECT/CT system unites high-end, multislice CT with an exceptionally flexible gamma camera- a true breakthrough in functional and molecular imaging that can aid diagnosis and treatment in cardiology and oncology. This merged system affords a comprehensive solution, providing registered SPECT, planar and CT images in addition to individual SPECT, CT, or attenuation-corrected nuclear medicine images. Clinicians can employ the fused SPECT/CT data sets to facilitate localization of pathology or alternatively, can acquire the individual datasets in a single imaging session, improving workflow and patient comfort…
The Precedence 64-slice SPECT/CT can produce CT-based attenuation correction and perform advanced cardiac CT procedures such as calcium scoring and CTA in one episode of care, on one system. It can also produce SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in half the time of conventional scanners…
[T]he Philips Xcelera R2.1, which now integrates exam results from all key cardiology subspecialties – interventional cardiology, cardiovascular ultrasound, ECG, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, cardiac MR and electrophysiology. This advanced cardiovascular solution for documentation, viewing, quantification and reporting tasks, provides clinicians with access to relevant images and information on patients across the hospital from a single workspace…
In addition to managing examination results in a patient centric-manner, the new release of Xcelera also brings a variety of new or enhanced clinical and reporting tools for 2D and 3D Echo, Cardiovascular X-Ray, Nuclear Cardiology (powered by AutoQuant), 2D and 3D Cardiac CT and MR, as well as for managing EP recording and mapping information. The new design of results management and availability of new and enhanced clinical tools enables cardiac professionals to more efficiently diagnose a patient’s condition and subsequently make more informed decisions about the method of treatment.
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