“We installed NAEOTOM Alpha at our institution in September 2021. We were impressed how robust and stable the system was running from day one. Today we routinely scan around 60 patients per day – while producing excellent clinical results.”
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med Jan Borggrefe
Director of Department of Radiology, Neurology & Nuclear Medicine
Johannes Wesling Klinikum Minden, Minden, Germany
By providing comprehensive diagnostic information in a single scan, NAEOTOM Alpha can help improve diagnostic confidence and potentially minimizing the need for additional imaging. For example, one scan could provide the following: CACS, coronary vessels, spectral data (Quantum PURE Lumen, Quantum PURE Calcium), valves, myocaridum (early phase perfusion, ECV). Thus, major changes to a conventional workflow can be implemented.
NAEOTOM Alpha joins the era of intelligent imaging powered by myExam Companion and myExam Compass, enhancing consistency of CT procedures, and ensuring the use of this breakthrough CT scanner is easy and intuitive, independent of operator skills (Figure 11).
Figure 11: myExam Compass guides users of any skill level through complex cardiac CT procedures.
The FAST 3D Camera helps align the patient at the correct isocenter, eliminating variability between operators, and also ensuring the correct part of the body is scanned. myExam Companion and myExam Compass help reduce the number of protocols and complexity of advanced examinations, by suggesting which settings can be tailored for each patient based on the answers to patient-specific questions (e.g., “does the CaScore scan show a coronary stent?”).
Based on the procedure and patient characteristics, it guides users to find the optimal combination of acquisition and reconstruction parameters, appropriate spectral imaging settings, standardized results, and always the right dose.
By measuring heart rate and rhythm, the system can automatically choose the most appropriate phase of the heart cycle to scan and later, to reconstruct.
The Quantum Cardiac Imaging package allows for comprehensive cardiac assessment and clinical consistency in cardiac CT with ease. Optimized, fully tablet-operated scan preparation, fast scanning, and standardized results in every cardiac case enabled by the integrated GO technologies (postprocessing & 3D visualization) allow the users to devote more time to patients.
With Recon&GO software, many result series are available as zero-click in-line results such as cardiac ranges, vessel ranges, heart isolation, coronary tree and no-click inline CaScoring (automatically calculates total Agatston Score and Coronary Age and archives them directly in the PACS).
To power the new workflows and the increased data handling requirements resulting from new technologies such as spectral imaging and Quantum HD Cardiac acquisitions, the computer systems of NAEOTOM Alpha have been uniquely designed to cope with the increased computational demands.
Both the Image Reconstruction System and Image Control System have vastly increased processing and storage power to ensure adequate image reconstruction speed and data storage requirements, ensuring that fast, efficient imaging can be performed when needed.