NeuroLogica announced that the inSPira HD SPECT scanner received 510(k) clearance from the FDA, according to a statement issued by the company last week.

Marketed mostly for brain scans, the portable, battery-powered inSPira HD offers double to triple the resolution of earlier models, Sang Lee, Marketing Manager of NeuroLogica, a Danvers, Mass.-based company, tells DOTmed News. Previous iterations of SPECT-based platforms could resolve up to 10-5mm, while inSPira HD can reconstruct images as fine as 3mm in size.

"SPECT always had a bad reputation for fuzzy imagery," Lee says, but now he thinks that's about to change. The inSPira HD uses "new technology that is offering high resolution to nuclear medicine doctors," he says.
In addition to its greater resolving power, the inSPira HD is fully portable and can be wheeled from the radiology room to any part of the hospital or clinic. "NeuroLogica offers the portable medical imaging modality," Lee says, noting that "point of care is...soon to become the new standard of care."

NeuroLogica claims that the inSPira HD has broad applications in the field of neurology. "In regard to targets," says Lee, "[there's] epilepsy, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's" and other cognitive and neurological disorders.

For more information on the inSPira HD, visit: http://www.neurologica.com/inspira-hd.html

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