GE Healthcare Optima CT520 - Manual (Page 4)

Efficient, accurate diagnosis
CT imaging has a variety of innovative uses in vascular studies.
Angiography is one of the fastest-growing CT procedures.
As a result, the demand for easy-to-use vascular analysis
has also grown.
The Optima CT520 makes the angiography exam workflow
efficient with proven IQ Enhance technology. IQ Enhance
accelerates helical pitch and lets you scan at the same
coverage speed as a 50-slice CT. This gives you the speed
you need to catch the arterial phase while still delivering
the spatial resolution needed to accurately visualize tiny
vessels or quantify stenosis. IQ Enhance helps you improve
the speed versus image quality balance.
To simplify workflow, the Xtream Integrated Injector lets you
synchronize the start of the injection and scan acquisition.
Remarkable 3D images, automated bone removal, and one-click
vessel tracking simplify processing and communicating with
referral doctors or vascular surgeons.
See more with CT
From diagnosis to treatment planning and monitoring, CT is
one of the most powerful and versatile imaging tools in the
fight against cancer.
The Optima CT520 enables you to see anatomy and lesions clearly
and understand the diagnostic landscape more thoroughly, with
optimized dose. High-quality images, streamlined workflow, fast
acquisition speed, and dose optimization help you detect and
evaluate small lesions and follow them over time, or provide a
detailed evaluation of tumor extension.
ASiR delivers up to 40% reduction in radiation dose with no
compromise in image quality** , † . This is particularly helpful
for procedures where low dose is especially desirable—for
example, for lymphoma and other patients requiring multiple
follow-up scans or for patients who are more radiosensitive.
IQ Enhance’s outstanding spatial and low-contrast
resolution allows a detailed study of arterial vascular
disease, including calcified plaque and occluded or
lumen reduction.
The images in this brochure were all
obtained from an Optima CT520
equivalent evaluation system.
Vascular & Oncology
Change the way
you see CT.
** In clinical practice, the use of ASiR may reduce CT patient dose depending on
clinical task, patient size, anatomical location, and clinical practice. A consultation
with a radiologist and physicist should be made to determine the appropriate
dose to obtain diagnostic image quality for the particular clinical task.
† Image quality as measured by pixel noise standard deviation.