FDA Clears 16, 32-slice Versions of Siemens' SOMATOM Perspective CT System

Press releases may be edited for formatting or style | May 15, 2014

(1) The following new Siemens CT scanners have demonstrated compliance with the NEMA XR-29 Smart Dose Standard: SOMATOM Force, SOMATOM Definition Flash, SOMATOM Definition Edge, SOMATOM Definition AS and AS+, SOMATOM Perspective, and SOMATOM Emotion.

(2) In clinical practice, the use of SAFIRE may reduce CT patient dose depending on the clinical task, patient size, anatomical location, and clinical practice. A consultation with a radiologist and a physicist should be made to determine the appropriate dose to obtain diagnostic image quality for the particular clinical task. The following test method was used to determine a 54 to 60% dose reduction when using the SAFIRE reconstruction software. Noise, CT numbers, homogeneity, low-contrast resolution, and high-contrast resolution were assessed in a Gammex 438 phantom. Low-dose data reconstructed with SAFIRE showed the same image quality compared to full-dose data based on this test. Data on file.

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