GE Healthcare Optima CT520 - Manual (Page 14)

Raise your CT IQ.
Optima CT520 incorporates the best technologies from
previous GE platforms—most notably the innovative
algorithm, IQ Enhance. Other smart features such as
the Volara* 24-bit Digital Data Acquisition System (DAS)
and Direct MPR help improve image quality and data
management efficiency. Combining power, spatial
resolution, and dose-optimization tools, Optima CT520
delivers exceptional image quality and highly efficient
imaging—even in regions such as the inner ear,
lungs, and bones.
Speed of a 50-slice CT
Who says you have to sacrifice image quality for speed?
Optima CT520 with IQ Enhance helps improve the speed
versus image quality balance. IQ Enhance reduces helical
artifacts in thin-slice helical scanning to increase coverage,
improve image quality, and reduce dose delivered to the
patient by using a higher pitch. It lets you scan at coverage
speed equivalent to that of a CT with a 50-slice detector.
From head to toe, you get high-quality images across
a wide range of clinical applications.
Efficient imaging
Optima CT520 collects cubic data sets of the smallest
practical volume, delivering remarkable images in 3D
and multi-planar reformatting (MPR)—20-mm coverage
with 0.625-mm isotropic cells. For resolution as small as
0.35 mm in all directions throughout the body—reproduced
at anytime and in all planes.
The Optima CT520 image chain is powered by GE’s exclusive
Volara* DAS, which delivers high processing power for
high-resolution images and low-dose performance.
It reduces noise up to 33%, for outstanding image quality,
even in difficult areas such as the shoulders and hips, and
in large patients. DAS also reduces noise in low-contrast,
soft-tissue body and neuro studies, and in pediatric exams.
But acquiring data is just the first step. Fast image
reconstruction with transfer speeds up to 16 fps and
Direct MPR help you quickly manage and assess large
datasets with ease—for pulmonary embolism, trauma,
CT angiography, and more.