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Enhancing MR Workflow and Scan Consistency with One Mouse Click
Philips new SmartExam represents a unique and major innovation in MR workflow. Typically, MR examinations require multiple scans that result in a series of images, each with its own characteristics, assisting the physician in making a diagnosis.

With SmartExam, clinicians and technologists are empowered with automatic planning, scanning and processing through a single mouse-click. This new tool offers consistency and reproducibility of scan results, creating optimized scan quality.

Using the examples of Ana's five-year-old son, Ricky, who was suffering from headaches, Philips will demonstrate how with the help of SmartExam, the clinical staff was able to better focus on Ricky and his clinical results.

The customizable system enables shorter total examination times for patients, while radiologists capture consistent reproducible clinical results, without operator variability. In addition, SmartExam has the flexibility to perform MR exams defined by the user, tailored to the user's own conventions and practices.

Currently available on Philips Achieva 3.0T, Achieva 1.5T and Panorama 1.0T scanners, the SmartExam tool can also be applied to previously installed Philips MR systems.

Revolutionary Enhancements Simplify Computed Tomography

Philips will unveil two new technological innovations that portray a stunning vision about the future of CT. The first, already in clinical trial at Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, Israel, is a new Simultaneous Multi Energy detector. This new detector is made up of layers designed to simultaneously detect both low-energy (soft) and high-energy (hard) X-rays. Simultaneous imaging of both soft and hard radiation promises to dramatically improve tissue characterization. Combining signals from both detector layers provides a conventional CT image consisting of the full energy of the beam. Simultaneous Multi Energy detectors do not require a second beam of radiation and thus avoid the potential pitfalls of time lag, registration artifacts and unnecessary radiation dose.

"Our goal is to differentiate soft and hard plaque," said John Steidley, Ph.D., vice president of Global CT Marketing, for Philips Medical Systems. "First images from the Simultaneous Multi Energy detector show better soft tissue contrast, simplify the process of removing bone and calcium plaque for CT angiography and reduce calcium blurring artifacts."

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