-Siemens Healthineers, leading player in radiology, diagnostic test and digital healthcare, launches SOMATOM go.All

[의학신문·일간보사=오인규 기자] Siemens Healthineers Korea, a leading player in delivering latest technology in radiology, diagnostic test and IT sectors based on its innovative and eco-friendly technology and ethical management, newly launched SOMATOM go.All as a move to intensify its digital health care portfolio.

■ New Portfolio of SOMATOM go.Platform : SOMATOM go.All

SOMATOM go.Platform, a flagship product of Siemens Healthineers’ CT line-up, is a portfolio welcomed by many medical practitioners for its efficient testing and user-friendliness as it enables overall CT scanning utilizing tablets.

Among the SOMATOM go.Platform line-up, SOMATOM go.All is a product that has been newly unveiled by the company, which delivers much safer and innovative technology. The product, developed based on automated scanning and 3D imaging technology, is equipped with low-dose technology to enable users to carry out low output scanning, and it also enables users to acquire accurate imaging more rapidly and to carry out scanning more readily using the scanning control function via tablets.

■ Essence of SOMATOM go.Platform: Intelligent Scan Scanning Guide

SOMATOM go.All is equipped with myExam Companion, which is an intelligent scan function that enables users to designate the scanning target area depending on the patients’ age, physical conditions as well as scanning purpose, while also provides automatic guidance by confirming whether a patient body contains metal substances. Such function enables a more rapid testing with involving relatively less medical personnel, and it also enables users who are not accustomed to using CT to easily carry out the scanning.

■ Easier Scanning Control Utilizing Tablets: GoMobile Environment

Users can maneuver SOMATOM Go.All utilizing wireless tablet and remote control, which helps them to minimize physical contact with patients. This can help protect healthcare providers from possible infection sources amid the rising importance of non-face-to-face environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic and minimize risks of virus transmission within screening rooms.

■ 3D Camera Used to Swiftly Identify Patients’ Information

Added to this, SOMATOM Go.All is equipped with Infrared light Fast3D Camera, which collects 3D information about a patient including his or her physical appearance, direction and height to move the table to the precise scanning location. Such positioning automation reduces the amount of time needed for screening and errors, while delivering accurate imaging.

■ Workflow for New Cardiac Scanning

As SOMATOM Go.All provides a 0.33-second rotation time in cardiac imaging, enhancing time resolution, the most crucial factor for patients with cardiac disorders, it is more efficacious for patients with fast heart rate. Since the Intelligent software provides guidance on when is the best timing to conduct x-ray scanning depending on the changes of the patients’ heart rate in order to minimize radiation exposure and acquire imaging with the least amount of cardiovascular movement. This enables users to carry out cardiac CT scanning in a more convenient and safe manner.

■ High Quality Imaging Despite Low-dose Scanning!

SOMATOM Go.All is also equipped with various new functions aimed at reducing radiation. A metal filter is added to the aluminum filter, which was conventionally used to eliminate radiation soft ray to reduce the usage of radiation compared to low-dose chest CT scanning but enhancing imaging sharpness, and thus it lowers radiation exposure while enhancing imaging quality. In addition, the new Stellar detector, which was launched by reducing electrical noise by 30% compared to existing detectors, can deliver up to 192 images per each rotation, which is more than the 128 that have been provided using the existing CT.

With the launch of SOMATOM go.All, which is equipped with all of the aforementioned advantages, Siemens Healthineers now added a new product in its SOMATOM go.Platform, following its SOMATOM go.Top and SOMATOM go.Now, enabling the company to further station itself as a leading player in diagnostic imaging based on the company’s more intensified portfolio.

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