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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | June 05, 2017
From the June 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
“FlowMotion enables PET images to be acquired in a continuous motion of the patient, similar to a spiral CT scan,” says Regis Monticeli, global product marketing manager for PET/CT at Siemens. “Our customers now have a lot more opportunity to personalize their acquisition protocols to each patient and clinical indication. Every customer that has FlowMotion utilizes it in almost 100 percent of the relevant protocols.”
One of the biggest clinical benefits of the technology is enabling the routine use of respiratory gating technologies, which help detect lesions in the chest and abdomen, areas that are subject to respiratory motion, Monticeli says.
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On the software side, the FDA has cleared a new version of Siemens’ syngo.via VB20 for Molecular Imaging. The new version has a feature called Multi-Foci Segmentation (MFS) that allows one-click calculation of a patient’s whole-body tumor burden. This is used to see a patient’s response to therapy.
Previously, clinicians would have to look at all the images from different parts of the body at different points in time, which can take as long as an hour, depending on the extent of the disease. MFS can take from a few seconds to a minute, says Karin Barthel, global product marketing director for Siemens.
“This automated approach is much faster while being as sensitive,” Barthel says.
Toshiba Medical
Toshiba Medical has released new software for PET/CT that speeds up reconstruction for both PET and CT scans and improves throughput. The software is available on the company’s Celesteion PET/CT system, which was unveiled in 2014 at SNMMI.
“We do have faster reconstruction than we had a year ago,” says Jim McCann, product manager for oncology at Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.
The company started delivering the software in the fall of 2016.
“Everyone has either received it already or is on the drawing board to receive it in a few months,” McCann says. “The response has been positive.”
Toshiba Medical anticipates releasing additional software enhancements at SNMMI this month.
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